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Said General Hershey: "No group deferments will be granted MRA or any other group." He also said that his 1941 finding that Buchmanism was "an essential element of our national-defense program" was "no endorsement of the work or policies of this movement...
Discoverers of the method of isolating eka-iodine are Dr. Walter Minder, director of Bern's Radium Institute, and Dr. Alice Leigh-Smith, British student of the late great Mme. Curie. In a burst of international patriotism they named the new element anglohelvetium after their native lands, as Mme. Curie named polonium for her Poland...
...Secretary Hull maintains, the thesis behind our diplomacy was of dual nature. One element of American influence was to build up resistance to aggression, while another was to cement the based for a sort of durable peace. Unwittingly, the complete record only outlines the neutralization of one effort by the other, with American moral, physical and political unpreparedness as the result. For while Hull and the New Deal coterie of interventionists were stiffening opposition to aggression, either by promise or threat, Congress was busy hamstringing real American intervention by Neutrality Acts and refusals of any sort of joint action. Disguised...
...Every element of French politics is in it," Collingwood said, "the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Fascists, the Communists, the De Gaullists, the Republicans, the Royalists-and don't underestimate the Royalists. . . . They are not as farfetched or improbable or as old-world as you might think." (For a report on French Royalists, see TIME...
Leighton and Bloch's prize-winning comedy "Spring Again" finally brings the veteran C. Aubrey Smith back to the stage; where he belongs. Long typed by Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...