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...give no testimony until the Committee assured him that it would "take the blame for anything that might happen." Then he cut loose: "The Army has become so complicated that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak of every war and the present organization will collapse at the outbreak of the next war because it is too topheavy, contains too many conflicting agencies, has too much divided responsibility...
...explosion five years later. Laymen found it hard going, but historians hailed it as important, called it the best study of war origins since Sidney Fay's The Origins of the World War. Was there any one person or thing responsible for the War's outbreak? If there was, says Author Wolff, its name was Prestige. But he seeks no simplified cause, finds no men of straw. Whatever may have been the basic cause, the accessories before the fact were incapacity, irresponsibility. As an eyewitness to Germany's fatal mistakes, Author Wolff lists many. She sacrificed England...
...proceed safely with a neutrality program at present. ... We must not forget that legislation may work in a quite unforeseeable fashion when an actual war arises. ... No man can say categorically how any neutrality program would function in the face of a real crisis such as a serious outbreak in Europe...
Raising an issue of vital importance to the whole nation, the recent controversy between the Honorable Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and William S. Paley, President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, is nowhere nearer solution than it was two months ago at the outbreak of hostilites. The part that the great broadcasting networks are to play in presenting political issues to the voting public of America, the editorial power such organizations are to have, the source and limitations of that power, are questions which must be settled now, and settled in such fashion that future controversies...
...named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of Molokai meant nothing to the outside world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government had exiled all its lepers after a frightful outbreak of the disease, a lawless chaos whose 800 foul inhabitants lived a slow death in huts, with only one another's company and the sweet intoxicating juice of the ki tree for distraction. Father Damien changed that, and in so doing made himself and Molokai famed...