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...explosive makings are already there. These seven forces, say Messrs. Hoover & Gibson, will be at the coming peace table: "Ideological, economic, nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic pressures, and the witches of fear, hate and revenge will participate in every discussion. But on the other hand, the prayers of a stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know all this from the nature of the human animal, from his long toilsome experience." To exploring and buttressing this pessimistic (or realistic) theme, they devote...
...tall, bald Admiral William Daniel Leahy, sat down to his first press conference since he left France, a few days after Pierre Laval became Chief of Government. For the record Admiral Leahy said: 1) the U.S. had been wise in maintaining relations with Vichy; 2) the U.S. should help stricken France in every way that would not help the Axis; 3) "the people of France are practically unanimously pro-American...
...landing on remote islands in the Aleutians (blaming the delay on bad weather, which prevented air reconnaissance). This week first results of U.S. air attacks on enemy naval units were disclosed, but the U.S. public still knew little about what was happening in Alaska. For months censorship has almost stricken the word Alaska from print. Since Pearl Harbor, no outside reporter or photographer has been allowed a peek inside Alaska. As one correspondent in Alaska puts it: "You people back in the 'old country' just plumb don't know the meaning of the word censorship." The Office...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...Wild Beast. What happened was this: the ignorant, the primitive and the poverty-stricken believed and defended the miracle. Roused to .a pitch of hope such as seldom touches the earth's hopeless, they became as powerful a fact for the world to reckon with as the vision itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between...