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...directing attention to incidental rather than to central points. Mankind suffers from many moral and economic ills, but no peace treaty can establish economic justice or moral perfection, or wait for them. Peace can create favorable conditions for social progress and spiritual life, in itself it does not depend upon them. It depends upon the enforcement of law by the united force of law-abiding nations...
...raids of February put together. That was a good beginning, an unlimbering relief to ground-weary flyers. The Navy, top dog on the Alaskan front, reported good results. Whether the pace could be maintained or whether the penny-ante games in airmen's quarters must begin again would depend largely on the dependably infernal weather...
...ground has been broken, and the foundations are being laid by the War Manpower Commission for complete mobilization of manpower. This must naturally include the Negro. But whether this is a permanent advance or only a temporary perch "for the duration" will depend upon the efficiency that Negroes show in their jobs, the extent to which they find and master training at skilled trades, and the readiness of employers to evaluate American workers on a basis not of their color, but of their ability. It will depend, also, upon whether organized labor learns the lesson that the white worker will...
...George) Ashton Oldham, Episcopal Bishop of Albany, roundly denied the importance of lipstick and nail polish to keep up U.S. morale. "God help this country," cried he in a Lenten sermon, "if we have to depend on those things for morale." Promptly from Hollywood came red-white-&-blue protests: How would the Bishop of Albany like to give up shaving? "I am willing to stop shaving," he countered, "if they are willing to give up cosmetics." That appeared unlikely...
...Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided, "a little on the novel," and much on the fact that, in a world struggling for unity, "borderlines between the different spheres of human thought become unessential...