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Administration officials had already demonstrated that Lend-Lease works both ways (TIME, Feb. 1). But last week came the sharpest proof of all. Major George A. Spiegelberg, of the Army's General Purchasing Board, told Congress that U.S. forces in the United Kingdom have spent only $1,000,000 since last June. All the vast remainder of their equipment, facilities, services and food was bundles from Britain...
...sharpest clarification of U.S. war aims yet made came this week from Henry Agard Wallace. The country's often abstract and abstracted Vice President suddenly made the basic premise of U.S. thinking as clear as an Arizona summer's day: free enterprise will remain the American way of life...
...summer of 1940 while he was out with us on a short training cruise. He wanted no special favors, nor received any, but pitched right in at whatever was to be done. He stood watch with me and navigated, conned the ship and trained gun crews. The sharpest memories I have are the time he was shoehorned into the forward magazine on a blistering hot day to help stow some ammunition we were receiving aboard, and the time he borrowed my white shoes and a pair of socks so he could go ashore in Norfolk. I remember...
...Normal. As the nation which has been the longest at war, China exhibits to the sharpest degree the growing worldwide tendency to take war as a normal course of life...
...sharpest repudiations of the New Order of Japan have come from India--see the reply of Tagore to Noguchi. For the past five years while we and England have been freely trading with Japan, India led by the All-India Congress has been boycotting Japanese goods in protest against the invasion of China. India has been less asleep than...