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...defenses: infantry training camps, the snappy artillery centre at Petawawa, even snappier Air Force stations at Camp Borden, Trenton, Uplands (Ottawa). They even got a long look at the crowded, guarded port of Halifax and some of the lately traded U. S. destroyers there. Because Canada got into high gear with its war effort only last summer, it cannot have much effect on the war before next year. But Canada has got far enough to be a working defense laboratory, wherein the U. S. could learn much about its own defense problems and procedures. Some of the questions to which...
WASHINGTON--Draft machinery swings into high gear this week with appointment of 25,000 local selective service board members, promulgation of rules governing classification and selection of registrants, and establishments of conscription quotas...
...reasons for Italian confidence was apparent superiority in the air. With a pronounced margin in numbers, the Italians also had at least parity in plane quality, since the British use mostly planes like Gloster Gladiators in Egypt, where dust and sand jam modern retractable landing gear. A third possible reason for Italian optimism was numerical superiority-perhaps four-to-one-in troops. Another was the threat of a diversion against the British rear, from Italian East Africa...
Despite some confusion as to parliamentary procedure and heckling by the isolationist-minded, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Defense League went into high gear last night with the announcement of its credo, the enrollment of members, and short talks by the heads of various committees...
...stake in the war that rages across the sea. If Germany wins, we are told by alarmists, we will be threatened with invasion; yet most military observers say such invasion is virtually impossible. If Germany wins, we are warned by the heralds of doom, we shall be forced to gear our economy to totalitarian requirements and Nazify ourselves; yet this has a hollow ring in view of our relative self-sufficiency...