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Official censorship of all newspapers may soon become an established institution in this country if we enter a shooting war; such anti-democratic action seems to be a necessary accompaniment of the forging of a sword from a nation's people. The necessity for it is called into question by the repeated protests by Britain's war-time civilians against soft-pedalling reports of defeats; they feel that sugar-coating disaster is no way to bolster the war effort. But at any rate, there can be little excuse for the present policy of America's army and navy bigwigs...
...preparing for the invasion from Mars," said Lewis J. Vorhaus '44 as he walked into the Union yesterday noon wearing the dress of a Roman centurion with armored vest, sword and helmet...
There was good reason why the crop of conscripts was being reaped. The Japanese neighbor, waving a sword in one hand and a pact with Russia in the other, was bearing down...
...polite, tweedy, pipe-puffing, also an ex-Treasury lawyer, will work with Cox, chubby J. C. Buckley, and blond, balding Alex Landgraf in planning, procuring, supervising production, shipment, whatever. These four, all 100% New Dealers, all young, tough-minded, aggressive, will be the Hopkins crew of odd-job men, sword-bearers, idea-factories, and intellectual bravos. They will work directly with the Navy's Paymaster, Rear Admiral Ray Spear, a grizzled seadog, and the Army's Major General James H. Burns, veteran War Department executive...
...through border country from which Japanese troops were already being moved south to new spheres of action. In his brief case was the precious pact, signed by himself and Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov just a week before. Tokyo newspapers were already hailing it as a "new sword" in Japan's hand, with which Japan would try to settle its differences with Great Britain, the U.S., The Netherlands Indies and China-diplomatically, if possible. If diplomacy did not succeed, Japan no longer feared attack from the rear...