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Eight months' experience with the draft has convinced the U.S. Army command that men between 20 and 25 make better soldiers than do men between 30 and 35, who are too set in civilian ways. Result: a decision to lower the average ages of draftees, eventually eliminate the troublesome 14% of trainees who are 30 and older...
...guttural noise went to Brennero to confer with Adolf Hitler. It was the sixth time the two dictators had met since World War II began. To this conference they brought not only their Foreign Ministers, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano, but also the chiefs of their high command, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and General Ugo Cavallero. WThat they planned the world would soon know, for each previous meeting has marked a new stage of the war. For the present all that Berlin and Rome announced was "complete agreement...
Editor Doster, who was wounded in World War I, and holds several decorations, knows how to buck up the morale of the men in the remote, hard-driven Panama Coast Artillery Command (TIME, MAY 26). He puts on an act - every day in person, once a week in the lively, mimeographed pages of the News. The monkey and the anteater are parts of the act. So is his official pseudonym in the News: El Toro Ferdiliza. And so are the screwy lines which stud Editor Doster's paper (OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: SLAPHAPPY. OUR MOTTO: "Blessed be he who bloweth...
...Army publicity in the U.S., Sergeant Doster got out the first issue of the News last summer. Since then it has grown from 250 copies of eight pages, to a weekly circulation of 6,247 and 40 pages. In addition to the jungle outposts of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, the News also has a booming circulation in other Army outfits and among families and friends of Panama Coast Artillerymen. Subscribers, paying 25? to 50? per month, bought enough copies in April to give the News a net profit of $820 (which went into the soldiers' Athletic and Recreation...
...look upon Britain merely as a bulwark which we should supply while she holds back totalitarian forces is dangerous for two reasons. First, England and America's command code for honor and dignity for man is overlooked. Second, the economic strangulation an isolated America would face is not considered...