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Harvard. Said the new editors of the once-isolationist Crimson last week: "Isolationists like Chicago's Hutchins hold .. . that America is not mentally mature enough to make entry in the War worth the cost-that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference. . . . The best answers to these cynics are the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter . . . and the meeting next month in Washington of Vice President Wallace with Sir Leith-Ross which will give substance to that pledge...
When the U.S. Navy Department eased its censorship on British vessels calling at U.S. ports for repairs (TIME, Sept. 29), it also released a partial list of those which had. The partial list was as meaningless as first returns in an election. But last week the Navy supplemented the list, and the ships which it said were, or had been, in U.S. ports comprised a whole navy in themselves-big enough to give the entire Italian Navy a run for its trembling life. The list...
...that theirs is a hollow triumph because no one has made sane preparation for the peace. Isolationists like. Chicago's Hutchins hold on this basis that America is not mentally mature enough to make entry in the War worth the cost--that we will make our high-flown pledges meaningless by again torpedoing the peace conference and by again helping create an economic situation in which the vanquished must starve or resort to arms...
...bustle was not meaningless. No matter how long the Russian campaign lasts, the try in North Africa is bound to come soon. The time and the weather are ripening: a year ago this week the Italians considered it time...
Both men disappeared. The President went off on his yacht Potomac with Commander of the Atlantic Fleet Admiral Ernest King. The Potomac promptly began sending out meaningless, innocent, provocative communiques. The Prime Minister simply vanished. From London also vanished Franklin Roosevelt's Man Friday, Harry Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer...