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...SUFFICIENT ONE. THE GOVERNMENT WHICH DETERMINED THAT PENALTY DOES NOT INDICT HIM AS A SLACKER OR AS AN EVADER OF THE DRAFT. WERE HE EITHER HE WOULD HAVE BEEN PLACED BEHIND BARS TO BE KEPT AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE. AT THE INTERNMENT CAMP TO WHICH LEW AYRES HAS BEEN SENT HE PAYS IN MONEY AND LABOR FOR HIS BOARD AND KEEP. WE DO NOT ADVOCATE THE THING THAT LEW AYRES HAS DONE. IN FACT WE BELIEVE IT TO BE THE SAD RESULT OF A SADDER MISCONCEPTION BUT WE TAKE OCCASION TO POINT OUT THAT HE SPOKE AND ACTED...
...voters knew they were getting no statesman. Senator Brooks was one of the bitterest of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists, a loud, rabble-rousing opponent of Lend-Lease, of draft extension, of revision of the Neutrality Act. Brooks, a veteran of three defeats for other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear...
...shallow draft (eleven ft.) was a feature. But her four propellers, sticking out under her bottom on vertical shafts, like outboard motors, increased her actual draft...
...also quiet. The nation had been attacked only through its shipping; there was no sense of urgency; Congress voted its declaration of war only after three exhausting days of debate. The U.S. of 1917 had only some 100,000 men in its Army, only 55 airplanes, 35 pilots. A draft bill was not signed for a month; it was two months before the first A.E.F.-fewer than 15,000 men-arrived in France...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...