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...would be a long time before the full story of the pact's signing came out. What was known was that by New Year's Day the wrinkles had been ironed out of the draft drawn by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle and his assistant Carlton Savage. Britain's Churchill, Russia's Litvinoff and China's T. V. Soong were called into conference at the White House that evening. Maxim Litvinoff had won one big point. This limited the pledge of the signers to a promise to make war to the end only...
When the Council's executive committee met to draft the message, some of the more militant denominational representatives wanted a prayer for victory put into the statement. This was omitted when others pointed out that in their similar statements at the start of World War II the British, French, Canadian and German churches had included no such prayers...
...first draft of World War II has netted 900,000 men for the U.S. Army. And there is more than one fish left in that same pool. The Army figures it can get two to three million more from among the 17,500,000 men already registered, and intends to keep after them without waiting to see what the second registration on Feb. 16 brings forth. With full equipment for 2.000.000 men on hand, and equipment for 2,000,000 more on order, the Army has set its immediate goal...
...there were only twenty-four doctorate aspirants, and Dean Mayo explained the large increase by the leniency of many draft boards, who allowed men to complete the last six months of their intensive five-year program, rather than induct them. A.M. degrees were awarded to sixty-four men last year, a figure exactly the same as the number of applicants this year...
Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the materials of the tale are surefire...