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...that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced every stage of Japanese aggression in China...
...Orator's incongruous and long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues of national policy with outworn moral aphorisms. And many Seniors are today sick and angry because they are being asked to attend an admittedly partisan "preparedness" meeting which will seek to make capital out of Commencement-day idealism...
...pretty certain that there will be some action," said Leon Henderson, after the board conferred last week with Franklin Roosevelt. Preliminary action there was, and of a kind to please U. S. businessmen. From Mr. Stettinius, the President ordered a thorough overhaul of the complex, tape-bound Federal procurement setup. Franklin ("I'm the boss") Roosevelt eased Secretary of the Treasury Morgen: thau out of Mr. Knudsen's way, giving him a free hand to tackle his enormous task of upping aircraft and aircraft-engine production to the still astronomical figure of 50,000 a year. Also promised...
...explain what he calls Canada's "Oedipus complex" toward her mother country, Correspondent MacCormac writes a clearrunning story of the Canadian past which U. S. citizens know so little about (e.g., that in the War of 1812 all the burning was not done by the British; U. S. invaders burned Government buildings at York, now Toronto). Incidentally drawing an entertaining portrait of Canada's vague, unsinkable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, he shows how Canada's "no commitments" policy between wars weakened British foreign policy at certain crucial moments: the Manchurian and Ethiopian crises particularly...
...simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure 8 is not a simple curve because...