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Most Canadians at home had known or suspected all along that their Army in Western Europe was Canadian in name only. They did not get huffy now that the news was out. Said the Halifax Herald: the complaint is "entirely understandable...
Veto by Five. Most important was the official version of the Security Council voting rules adopted by the Big Three (TIME, Feb. 19). The votes of seven of the eleven members of the Council are necessary for any action. Any nation, however small, may bring up a complaint for world discussion. If the complaint is against one of the Council's eleven members-even one of the Big Five-that country must abstain from both the discussion and the voting. In other words, any seven members of the Council may draw an indictment...
...Gerald David Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 20, nephew of Britain's George VI, was praised by his regimental sergeant major as a democratic, model soldier. There was only one complaint against Private Lascelles: his superiors could not persuade him to make the usual $4-a-week allotment to his mother, the Princess Royal...
...nonflying Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' Pacific Fleet, the policy is for top nonflying combat admirals to have airmen chiefs of staff.* Except for their comparatively low rank (which is Admiral King's affair), naval flyers in the Pacific have hardly a complaint...
...pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also get $100,000 a year or better for five years (Caniff now earns about $62,000 a year...