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...Atlantic Charter did in Europe. A Charter like this would mean that Burma would become autonomous, Malaya would cease to be a British colony, and the East Indies would become truly Indonesian and not Dutch. Hong Kong will be China's and Shanghai no more an International Settlement. If we believe the statements made . . . recently, this already is the American policy in this war. If this is so, it only remains for America to give final shape to this policy in the form of a Pacific Charter...
Exit McNear. Last March McNear pulled his most ruggedly individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
...Labor Board's comment: Mr. Witherow and other industry representatives had pledged themselves to "accept the President's direction for peaceful settlement of disputes...
...oilmen, with much greater stakes in other watchful foreign countries (particularly Venezuela), the settlement seemed like nothing so much as being sold down the river by their own Government. For, while $24,000,000 is almost three times as much as Expropriator Lázaro Cárdenas liked to pretend their properties were worth, it is only about one-eighth of what the companies themselves think they were worth, and it apparently puts no value on subsoil rights−the oil reserves under the ground to which the oil companies had title. This is the very principle the companies...
...although they balk at ditch-jumping, the C.O.'s at Harvard are willing to pull their load in the search for better understanding among the peoples of this country and the world. Members of the Association are engaged actively in such work as the Council on Post-war Problems, settlement-house work, social work-projects of various sorts, Volunteer Civil Defense Work, etc., etc. We feel we owe a debt of gratitude to the Crimson for its service in helping to remove the misunderstanding which makes the work of the pacifists doubly difficult in war time. Hugh Barbour '42, Preston...