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Paper Soldiers. According to U. S. tradition, the Regular Army would be the nucleus for the citizen Army in war, but in peacetime was itself simply an unemployed police force. This system tended to discourage and demoralize the officers who were its pensioners and victims. If only to keep busy, they constantly fiddled with their paper armies...
...College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons...
...authority, that he could conduct, he did not do so. Dr. Malcolm Sargent, who did, put a symphony on each program, played also light classics but "no rubbish." Up to last week only one air raid disturbed a concert. The Philharmonic played right through it. The orchestra's nucleus of 65 oldish players was periodically eked out by men on leave from air-raid and home-defense forces, as well as nine enlisted members. But the Philharmonic was worried because English Horn Peter Newbury, London's best, was harming his sensitive hands digging trenches on the coast...
Today U. S. military history has again come full cycle. Against the threat of the most powerful war machine in the world a small professional army (214,927 in 1939) is the nucleus under a Protective Mobilization Plan (P. M. P.) for development of a force of 1,200,000. To the U. S.'s 14,079 professional Army officers, bogged for years in a slow promotion list, consistently shortchanged on military appropriations, a war-frightened Congress has this session voted $3,007,988,155, is readying $3,911,995,417 more in appropriations and authorizations. With Britain backed...
...France realization came too late to save the Third Republic and democracy. Bewildered by what had happened to them, the French people needed time to relearn the lessons they had forgotten. For the present the most that could be salvaged was the nucleus of the French nation, and even this was in doubt. To try to save as much as they could, by whatever means they could, was the self-appointed task of the self-appointed leaders of what was left of France...