Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sign a pact of mutual defense. Its argument: the U. S. could make such a treaty without U. S. involvement in World War II; staff talks could be started; a North Atlantic base be secured. There was no question that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers...
...know anything about it. I haven't even read it'"); Henry Wallace ("He was very uneasy and begged us to excuse him"); G. O. P.'s Vice-Presidential Nominee Charles L. McNary ("He said young men in uniform to solve the unemployment problem is Hitler's method...
...Today the 4,719 Negro soldiers in the regular Army are in four regiments (9th and 10th Cavalry, 24th and 25th Infantry), a few smaller outfits. All are led by white officers. But in World War I (as he will be soon again), the Negro officer was a problem that continually harried white men. In the U. S. and in France, white enlisted soldiers often refused to salute Negro rankers...
Today, with its white officers superseded by a group of lean, soldierly Negroes, the 369th is a concentrated figure of the problem the U. S. Army faces with expansion. For the call of the National Guard into active service will put many another Negro officer on duty, and about 500 Negro reserve officers are also subject to call. Based on Negro population, 10% of the men drafted under a conscription bill may well be black soldiers. Today, while recruiting officers are beating the bushes for white soldiers, Negro applicants are clogged up on a waiting list. There is no place...
Like other Army officers, 63-year-old Colonel Davis would rather not worry about the service's race problem, is happy with his first regimental command...