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...between man and woman, but ending in the vast reaches of the universe." The practical wisdom of Confucius' prescription for a good ruler, "Be a good son and brother," was a part of his simple and infinitely varied ordering of society into five human relationships: sovereign and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend...
...Four-motored Flying Fortresses and Liberators, under lease from Boeing and Consolidated. (Douglas makes almost as many Fortresses as does the parent Boeing company; one fifth as many Liberators as does the parent Consolidated...
...Front. Churchill also revealed what Allied airmen have known for some time: that the Germans have brought against U.S. and British bomber formations a new type of weapon - "a sort of rocket-assisted glider which releases its bombs from a height and is directed toward its target by a parent aircraft." He did not add, but London heard, that other "surprises" had been detected in Western Europe's defenses. Clearly, the Prime Minister in his hour of triumph was not forgetting that all the blood and tears have not yet been shed...
...Calamity? From Moscow came news that four German generals and more than 100 other Wehrmacht officers, mostly captured at Stalingrad, had formed a German Officers' Union; that General of Artillery Walther von Seidlitz had been elected its president. Just as the Soviet Union Government had indirectly sponsored the parent. National Free Germany Committee and its manifesto proposing a democratic, capitalistic postwar Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), so the Soviet Union Government last week sponsored the Officers' Union and its declaration. That declaration, printed in Pravda and broadcast from Moscow, told Wehrmacht leaders, in effect, how they might ditch Hitler...
...important money to improve a passenger service on which it lost $20 million in the seven years from 1934 through 1940. The Long Island states its case with complete candor. Its open books show that the railroad has avoided bankruptcy only through credits totaling $9.3 million from its rich parent, the Pennsylvania. Thus the promise of Utopian commuter service on the 364-mile Long Island is hedged with two provisos: 1) a 20% fare increase for 55 million commuters, which White recommended; 2) easing of the crushing property taxes levied against the railroad by local governments and used in part...