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...Armies maintain communication through dozens of portable radio stations. Well enough off for food, they badly need clothes, arms, ammunition. The Yugoslavs have five airfields behind their lines, hope the British will be able to fly in some supplies from the Middle East...
That this country would whole-heatedly support any program designed to set up and maintain a high national morale is unquestioned. The implications of a "college morale-building" program are far more menacing. If such a program referred to the establishment of defense training courses intended to place graduates in important positions during the emergency, there would be no cause for alarm. But "morale-building," when it refers to colleges, goes a good deal farther than that; it means more than drafting the man-power or physical facilities of a University; it mean more than stirring up some enthusiasm...
...strong criticism for taking advantage of the Mediation Board's chicken-heartedness and refusing to delay the strike pending mediation. He seized this moment, opportune for him and inopportune for the country, to further his own gains. But the Mediation Board should be criticized for trying, stupidly, to maintain labor's status quo by doing nothing. Morgan and his cronies have perverted the defense cloak in order to maintain an unjust open shop. And the President, his feet grown cold since the famous 1932-33 days, has failed to force settlement on the purely union-shop basis and thus...
Nevertheless, Mr. Hillman was still prepared to maintain that the stabilization agreement was worth preserving. It had kept the construction program running on an even keel. The U.S. was halfway through a $10,000,000,000 building program; now certainly was not the time for revolution in the building field. He was not willing to foster or provoke a bitter labor...
...break through with tanks, he suggested using three successive waves, behind which would pour infantry attackers to maintain their breach. This system calls for tight concentration of tanks into vast breaching units-e.g., the four Panzer Armies which have made the big breaks in Russia...