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...Japanese invasion and occupation, direct rule by the governor of Burma will continue until December 1948; 2) by that date, it is hoped, elections will have been held, the prewar partial self-government enjoyed by the Burmans restored; 3) thereafter the Burmese people, having agreed among themselves, will draft a constitution to be approved by the British Parliament...
Dumbarton Oaks, the Big Powers' draft of a world charter, rested on the premise that the way to keep the peace was to let the chief contestants make and administer the rules with a minimum of interference and assistance from lesser powers. After three weeks of world debate in San Francisco, this proposition was still intact. But it had undergone some severe strains...
...stories about draft discrimination kept piling up. Several athletes who looked like grade A 4-Fs had been hurriedly reclassified and inducted-after draft officials spotted the P.A. (for Professional Athlete) on their papers. Examining doctors had rejected Hugh Poland of the Braves until an Army officer cracked: "If you can play ball, you can serve in the Army." The Phillies' Ron Northey had been turned down and then called up three days later. The Cardinals' Danny Litwhiler had been drafted despite a medical notation that "this registrant . . . does not meet the minimum requirements for military training...
...fact and its meaning were slow to sink in. It was as though Stettinius and Eden did not want to look at the skeleton which had invaded the feast. All next day they and Molotov labored away, in a kind of desperate friendliness, at changes in the Dumbarton Oaks draft of their world charter, but the skeleton would not be banished...
These are but two of the hundreds of G.I.s, some glum, some gay, whom Sergeant Walter Bernstein ran across in his three years as a correspondent for the Army's newspaper Yank. From a draft board in Brooklyn, Correspondent Bernstein's career in the Army carried him to Georgia, to Italy, and finally into German-held Yugoslavia, where he became the first U.S. newsman to interview Tito. In a tense chapter of Keep Your Head Down he describes his seven-day march to Tito's headquarters and his meeting with the Partisans. But readers of Bernstein...