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When he berates the colleges for being "too narrowly intellectual, too critical, too debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches...
Colonel Beukema's course at West Point is packed with facts about strategic raw materials, Latin America, productive capacity, the efficiency of each great power's form of government for conducting war. He also concerns himself with studies unusual for a soldier-planning the peace to follow the war. Typical question to his students: "With respect to the Far East, what alignment of powers in your opinion would insure peace in that area...
Grounds for the hoarders' fears: 1) Hawaii and the Philippines, which should have contributed some 2,000,000 tons of raw sugar to the U.S. this year, may not be able to supply any; 2) vastly increased needs for alcohol for smokeless powder (see p. 66) may throw all the supply figures galley west; 3) nobody knows how much sugar the U.S. may have to Lend-Lease to Britain, the U.S.S.R., other allies. But the Commodity Research Bureau last week estimated minimum raw-sugar supplies for 1942 of 4,575,000 short tons, not counting any at all from...
...rationing as has occurred.) > Last week RFC's Defense Supplies Corp. was all set to sign up with Cuba for the largest sugar order ever: $200,000,000 worth, 3,450,000 tons. This is 80% of Cuba's total 1942 crop. > OPA raised its ceilings on raw and refined sugar about 7% (24? per cwt. for raw, 20? for refined). While the chief reason for the raw-sugar rise was to bring all prices into line with the DSC-negotiated price to Cuba, it should also encourage increased production, both off-shore and domestic. > This week refiners...
...knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan. It makes him ruthless, cruel, lascivious. When his officer is not looking he spits in the white prisoner's food. He has no compunction (since there...