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Policy. The foreign policy of unarmed countries follows an exact pattern: assorted appeasements, big talk, empty threats, copious quotations from international law, appeals to reason. To this natural policy Welles has made a more practical addition: a search for friends. He is obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations...
...reserve totals 50-75,000 more, all with five and a half months of MacArthur training. Its officers are young, for the Army was started with no backlog from an officer class. Most of them are trained in the Philippine Military Academy at Baguio, fathered by MacArthur on the pattern of West Point. Many a U.S. regular is doubtful of the Philippine Army's youngsters. Few armies in modern times have been developed so rapidly, with such an accent on youth. But Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, U.S.A., thinks his boys are good...
...only fully motorized U.S. infantry, one of the nine triangular (three instead of four infantry regiments) divisions in the Army, last week was chosen for an experiment: to try out the newest 1942 pattern for triangular divisions. Fort Benning's Fourth, a streamlined outfit commanded by spring-legged Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, is a weld of oldtimers, new regulars and more than 5,000 draftees. For its experiment, the Fourth is to get 50% more fire power, the first tanks to be assigned as part of an infantry unit, and the first of the Army...
...accident, but a natural law based on deep bio-social necessity determines the pattern by which people settle in towns of different sizes. Such is the simple conclusion-with arresting implications-of Lecturer George Kingsley Zipf of Harvard, who analyzes the mathematics of population distribution in his new book, National Unity and Disunity (Principia Press...
...economically healthy nation will always reveal its equilibrium in its straight-line community pattern, like a healthy body with its temperature of 98.6°. If the graphed line sags, wrinkles severely or bulges, the nation is maladjusted. But natural bio-social forces tend always to restore straight-line health...