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Pollsters got busy on Britain's general election. The British Gallup Poll began sampling early last month. Chief (arid purely hypothetical) question: "If Liberals, Labor, Common Wealth, Independent Labor Party and the Communist Party united as a Popular Front against the Conservatives at the next general election . . . which would you be most likely to vote for, the Popular Front candidate or the Conservative...
Last week Conservative Lord Beaver-brook's London Daily Express published the result of a straw vote conducted by its election bureau in 487 of Britain's 640 constituencies. The score, a more practical pointer than the Gallup Poll findings, gave the Conservative Party 53 seats more than all other parties combined...
...display at West Point more broadly significant than ever. In the first of a series of hearings, the House's special Postwar Military Policy Committee officially opened the great debate on universal military training. Favored by 69.6% of the U.S. people (according to this month's FORTUNE poll), is the Army's proposal to require all able-bodied young men to serve one year in training under arms-with West Point graduates as the chief teachers. If defeated, this program will probably be replaced by a vast expansion of the standing army and the reserve officer training...
...Poll & Payroll. Then, fairly sniffing the stale air of speakeasies and Minsky burlesque shows, and cocking an ear for the tugboat whistles that used to herald a civic reception for a Channel swimmer or a Uruguayan pingpong champ, the News set out to bring Jimmy back. It hired teams of canvassers (at $10 a day apiece) to poll the city, promising its readers that the poll "will be conducted scientifically and impartially." Actually, no Ja vote in Hitler's Reich ever packed a more loaded question than the one the News launched its poll with: "If not Walker...
...point system had been decided upon (TIME, Sept. 18) as fairest; a poll had shown it favored by enlisted soldiers, and it made no difference what officers thought (the plan does not apply to them and they will have to take their luck as the Army can spare them). But not until V-E minus ten had any theater commander known what the point values would be. Only 24 hours before the official announcement of R-day were the commanders told in coded telegrams what total of points would make a man eligible for release...