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...Congress rejected this compromise, and also objected to several features of Britain's plans for post-war Indian self-government (TIME, April 6. et seg.). The Congress feared the principle that provinces could set up separately if they did not like the majority's constitution (a British concession to Moslem League demands for a separate Moslem state). Finally, the Congress demanded independent government at once. This would mean ultra-confusion during the war crisis, and a government by party nomination that might well offend large minorities...
...arrival of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Marshall, et al. to serve as defense counsel returns the case to a legal level. Their ghostly talents permit them to gather evidence unobserved. The case is a pushover. Of no help whatsoever is another shady defender named Henry Bartholomew Smith (James Conlon), volunteer private in Washington's Continental Army, who, having helped free his country, is through taking orders from generals whose commissions have expired. While the great men squabble over oldtime politics, he observes dryly to Bookkeeper Holden: "Now do you see why it took us seven years to win the Revolution...
Brazil first set the pendulum in motion when, during the January conference at Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.), she broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis. The pendulum came swinging back with the torpedoing of Brazilian ships speeding raw materials to the U.S. Last week, when sinkings had reached four (possibly five) ships totaling 22,231 tons and had caused 51 deaths, Brazil realized that hemisphere solidarity was grim business. She reversed the pendulum, with angry weight behind...
...Fleet's In (Paramount) is exactly what its title suggests: something to entertain the boys on shore leave. Some of this entertainment weighs around 120 lb., looks good and steps lively. The rest is a massive aggregation of singers, dancers, assorted entertainers (rubber-jointed Betty Hutton, et al.) and little Jimmy Dorsey's molten musicians. The result is hot & cold, but makes a cheerful rushing sound...
...dinner in Washington, sponsored by the New Republic to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the New Deal, a group of high-up New Dealers (including Mr. Justice Hugo Black, Senators Pepper of Florida, Mead of New York, Hill of Alabama, Murray of Montana, Sidney Hillman, et al.) heard Attorney General Francis Biddle. He declared that the New Deal had been successful "because it is a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader...