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...compelled to serve overseas; 5,000 would be sent in December, 5,000 in January, 6,000 in succeeding months. The commitments had been met, General McNaughton now admitted, only because the Government had anticipated substantial desertions, had moved enough troops to ports to "insure embarkation of a full complement of reinforcements." Undeniable was the fact that thousands of Canadian draftees simply did not want to go to war. (At week's end it was announced that throughout Canada there have been 90,000 men A.W.O.L. since war's beginning...
Guest in the House (Hunt Stromberg-United Artists) is the psychological complement of another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
...Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...Britain's plan for a power bloc of western European countries (TIME, Nov. 13), proposed a year ago by South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, energetically pushed since then by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The London Times had argued: "[The West Bloc] is a necessary complement to the system of security which Soviet Russia ... is building up in eastern Europe. Both for Britain and western Europe [it] represents a departure from tradition. . . . But for both it has become a necessity of the first order...
Armed with 158 cannon, ranging in caliber from 16-inchers (nine) down to 20-mm. antiaircraft pieces, an Iowa needs more than half her complement of 2,500 men simply to man her guns. She is armored with 16-inch plate, is built so ruggedly that the recoil of her main batteries is reduced to an unexciting whoosh in the engine rooms below. Her speed is "more than 30 knots," her maneuverability better than many warships one-tenth as large...