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...with little damage done to shops, drydocks and fuel storage, the Fleet can still function in force, minus only the striking power of ships and aircraft lost to bombs and torpedoes. But if Pearl Harbor is grievously damaged, the Fleet, or large units of it, may be forced to pull back to the Pacific Coast...
...Canada needed most last week was Ernest Lapointe. For two decades Ernest Lapointe had manipulated the strings that pull the geographical subdivisions, the racial and religious antagonisms of Canada into one nation. Last week the issue of conscription for overseas service threatened to snarl the strings as badly as it did in World War I. But the great manipulator's fingers were limp...
What inspired most of the worry was that patrician, patronizing Arthur Meighen, who sponsored conscription in 1917, had been dusted out of the Senate, made Conservative leader and heeled with Tory funds to start a conscription crusade (TIME, Nov. 24). Without Ernest Lapointe to pull the proper strings at the proper time, such a crusade might end in a free...
Guest artists of increasing distinction accepted invitations to appear. Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., endeared herself by threatening to pull Joad's beard. The Honorable Harold Nicolson was elected to BBC's Board of Governors a few days after experting on Any Questions? ; the Brains Trust disrespectfully took all the credit...
Paradoxically, United will use the proceeds (about $26,000,000) not for expansion but to pull in its horns. As it was when it set aside a $4,000,000 reserve (TIME, Nov. 17), it is thinking of the day when the war will be over. With a backlog of $500,000,000 and less than $25,000,000 in capital, United is financing its roaring business out of sales. But when those Gov ernment checks stop arriving, it will have to have more capital. There will be conversion and development expenses. And United may want...