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...world and World War II changed last week. By their conquest of Java, the Japanese split the far Pacific. Its vast expanses ceased to exist as a single Allied war area. The great zone of strategy, action and command became a set of separated zones...
With these principles accepted, the conference split up into four groups to study, respectively, the social, economic and political problems of the post-war world and the problem of the church's own position in that world.* Discussion waxed hot & heavy, with one notable silence: in a week when the Japs were taking Java, discussion of the war itself was practically taboo. Reason: The Federal Council felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church...
Actually, handsome young David Astor will not take over until war's end. The Garvin-Astor split was not over him but over Winston Churchill, whom Garvin supports and the Astors don't like. Gar-vin's two "serious offenses" were outlined to him in a letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay...
Yale won its second victory over Harvard last week to clinch the runner-up spot in the standings. The Elis clearly had the second best team in the circuit although held to an even split in their series with Princeton. The loss of Captain George Young and Dick Poole from the first and second lines of the team which won the 1941 title apparently affected Princeton more seriously than had been thought when the firing began last December...
...enough Americans are willing to carry out the amount of democracy they advocate and fight for, the future won't hold much for their sons and grandsons. For no nation with a split personality can expect a great and glorious growth, and no nation "divided against itself" can expect to stand for long...