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...tribunal, disinterested and acquainted with the main issues, before whom the State Department must justify, must rationalize its policies, while the research and publicity bureaus which the Foreign Policy supports place an added check on the Departments arbitrary action. The more intelligent state officials appreciate the value of this function, much as judges depend upon and respond to continuous scrutiny from an alert and interested bar. For obviously the officials must act and frame policies whether disinterested outsiders watch or care...
...attack planes in five wings, concentrated on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Middle West. Recommended in the Baker Committee report on Army aviation (TIME, July 30), the GHQ Air Force will virtually constitute a separate Air Corps-a fighting unit distinct from the observation groups which function directly with ground troops in tactical operations...
...intellectual culture of college students, approximately 70 members of the faculties of New England colleges and universities will meet at the Wellesley Inn, at Wellesley, for a conference on religion today, tomorrow, and Sunday. The group is assembled to give attention to the question, "Has religion a function in modern life; if so, what?" The conference has been arranged by a committee of which Kirtley F. Mather is chairman...
...opening session will be held at 8 o'clock tonight. Saturday morning will be devoted to four conferences, one of which will be led by George G. Wilson, professor of International Law, and will direct its attention to "The Function of Religion in International Relations...
Assuming that it is desirable that there should be lectures in every survey course and that there should be two lectures each week in most of the courses now open to Freshmen, the chief function of the section meeting is to coordinate the reading and the lectures, and serve as a clearing house for any difficulties in the minds of the students, and fill any gaps that cannot be covered in the assignments or the lectures. If time permits three minute oral reports on relevant points by members of the class should be instructive, interesting, and a guard against...