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...operations in India's defense should remain under a British Commander in Chief, the Congress party wanted the Defense Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council (analogous to the U.S. Secretary of War) to be an Indian. Britain agreed to this, but proposed to take away his function as a link between the Government and the C.-in-C., giving it to the C.-in-C. himself. This would have left the Indian Defense Member holding a bag of relatively unmilitary responsibilities such as public relations, demobilization, post-war reconstruction, petroleum, canteens, stationery and printing...
Orphans of the Storm. The new State Guards have been orphans of the emergency, without central organization, without training, often without guns or even uniforms. Yet even experts agree that a home guard has a real function. A modern enemy attacking a coast lands not only on the shore, but far inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting...
...thermal" to rise. Sometimes they even fly in formation. Another man-made addition to flight skill is the complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing on its single wheel for about...
...years ago last March some of us at the School made up our minds that war was inevitable, and that the chance of this country's being involved was very great, and we started preliminary conversations with the planning division of the United States Army to see what the function of the School ought to be in war time...
...material for instruction in war problems for approximately two years-actively. The year before last, the Mobilization and Defense courses given in the second half year attracted approximately two-thirds of the eligible students. Early last spring, as a result of six months' further study of the war-time functions of this School and cumulative evidence that the Army and Navy wanted us to continue to perform a function for them as well as for industry, we started reconstructing the curriculum throughout. As a result, the School went on a war basis at the opening of last fall's term...