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Japan's proposed "New Order in Asia" has been steadily increasing in scope. At first it was to include only North China, but gradually the conception has expanded to embrace all of China, then "Greater East Asia," then "Oceania...
...most extraordinary thing about World War II is not its speed, not its extent, not its tactical scope - but its relative unmurderousness. Last week Britain revealed that in the first 21 months of the war only 18,627 members of the Army, Navy and R.A.F. had been killed in action...
...community that in virtue of it the public authority can interfere with the evolution of that individual . . . decide on the beginning or the ending of human life, determine at will the manner of his physical, spiritual and moral movements." This would mean "falling into the error that the proper scope of man on earth is society, that society is an end in itself...
EXCEPT for a group of three short poems by Marvin Barrett and the usual reviews (of which Frederick Jacobi's musical criticism is to be praised), the new Advocate consists entirely of fiction. The scope of the whole is narrow, but the variety of the fiction is great. This has not always been true: too often the Advocate has reflected a single and special set of interests and tastes...
...calling for observation posts on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with some 16 volunteer spotters for each post. Volunteer groups all over the U.S. - especially women's clubs and American Legion posts - have long been active on their own hook. But nothing so far undertaken suggests the scope of Administration plans, which call for the protection of water systems and public utilities, fire extinguishing, treatment of fire hazards, training to insure the continued operation of utilities and transportation, until hundreds of thousands - and perhaps millions - of men, women and children are taking part...