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...brought in an era of draft calls, which depleted our 'typesetting staff, and of crisis journalism with its bad news breaks and late news. The late Adolf Hitler was forever making a major move on weekends. Pearl Harbor happened on Sunday and V-J Day was on a Tuesday. Inasmuch as our deadline is midnight Monday, interruptions like these meant that the 'typesetters, who are always the last to leave, shared with the rest of the editorial department the headaches of late closings...
...military would have charge of the actual training, but an overall commission of two civilians and one military man would be in command. Local boards, like draft boards, would register the neighbors' sons. Other civilian boards would keep constant watch on the welfare of the trainees. Army men might find civilian participation a little thick...
Last week the President also: ¶ Sent to Congress the draft of a bill permitting the U.S. to train & arm her sister republics of the Western Hemisphere, a step long urged by the War & Navy departments, vigorously opposed by some factions of the State Department...
...minute May was urging an ordnance colonel to "get a nice, big contract" for his good friends Murray and Henry Garsson to manufacture artillery shells. The next, he was demanding draft deferment for an acrobat friend of Murray Garsson. Then he was back to see if the Garssons could not get an Army contract to build wooden watertanks...
...when the meetings got down to the brass tacks of Professor Chafee's draft of an agenda, Expert Lomakin did not go along. On the nub of press freedom-elimination of peacetime censorship-Consul Lomakin was adamant. He proposed that the coming conference (in a European city to be selected later) be specifically prevented from considering such a step. He argued that censorship was exercised normally only against newsmen who were not acting in good faith and whose reports were designed to create misunderstanding and friction between nations. "Naturally," said Lomakin, "no Government can stand for that...