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Command by Function. Actually, the Pacific command situation had settled considerably since its inception. At first, it was an operation divided by geographical lines. By now it was a command by function: the Navy transports the troops and has command of them while at sea, General MacArthur takes over the minute they land on the beaches...
Pointing to the natural sciences as particular offenders in their narrow presentation, the Colgate Committee on the Postwar College argues, 'Memorizing, even, with understanding, a group of facts from one of the natural sciences, for example, does not given an insight into the actual function or functioning of science or of scientists...
After the signing, the four-power Allied Control Council was in formal existence, and its over-all plan for the control of Germany was released to the world. But not much had happened: the Council did not even begin to function, and some sections of the plan, written when the occupation was more of a prospect than a fact, already seemed out-of-date...
...length in any American paper (and I'm sure I never will); nor have I seen general or detailed analyses of any kind of Soviet techniques of free suffrage, the make up of the Presidium, or of the manner in which executive branches of the Soviet state actually function...
...Commission's function was to coordinate individual policies of the occupying powers in these and other matters. But, practical-minded as the Commission members might be, it would be difficult to coordinate the policies until they had been mutually disclosed...