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...Sent his annual report to the President. This document told remarkably little about the Army. But Secretary Woodring did get at the main difference between the U. S. Army as it traditionally has been in peacetime, and the Army as Commander in Chief Roosevelt wants it to be from now on. The old Army was a feeble amoeba, unfit even for its theoretical role as the core of a fighting force to be raised after war starts. What is now wanted is an Initial Protective Force (Regular Army plus National Guard), manned, equipped and ready to fight at the drop...
Probably the most debated point in postwar Soviet history was the "last testament" supposedly left by Lenin. Most salient point in the alleged document was a proposal to get rid of Stalin "because he is too crude." Stalinists have long denied its genuineness; best Trotskyist argument is that Stalin once quoted it and that Stalin once admitted: "Yes, I am rough, rough on those who roughly and faithlessly try to destroy the 'Communist Party...
...Polish Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski made their ten-year Peace Pact in 1934, the German Legation in Warsaw was advised by the Berlin Foreign Office that the Pact "in no sense includes recognition of the present German east border but on the contrary brings to expression that with this document a basis for the solution of all problems, including herewith the territorial, is to be created...
...rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...
Result was a letter to all U. A. W. locals from President Roland Jay Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, proclaiming a set of "principles of responsibility." This noteworthy document was at once a confession of past sins and a command to the membership to sin no more by sit-downs, slowdowns, stay-ins, rash walkouts. It was also a promise that motor-makers with unionized plants can finish their booming 1940 season without a repetition of the rash, costly Chrysler shutdown (TIME, Dec. 4). Excerpts...