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Anyone who has seen Harvard in the two games it has played knows that this quality of super-duper defense under pressure which W & M possesses constitutes a distinct threat to Crimson hopes. For in both the Pennsylvania and North Carolina Pre-Flight contest the team was able to get down past the opponent's five yard line, but still failed to score...
...national ruling empowers General Smith to carry out his threat: local boards may now "consider anew the classification" of a registrant who "is not supporting or is adversely affecting the war effort." But like most phases of the draft, its use to enforce work-or-fight rulings is surrounded by confusion. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective Service director, said last week that he was opposed to .using the draft as a weapon against strikes "at present"-but he did not interfere in Mobile and he suggested using the draft to keep farm hands on the job. Local boards...
...Russians claimed that a Finnish motorized battalion was helping the Germans at Stalingrad and that "old men and cripples" were being conscripted to help the Germans storm Leningrad. In Washington Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope denied the charges, added that Finland "wants to cease fighting as soon as the threat to her existence has been averted" and her security guaranteed...
...delicate subject and difficult to get at. Tory-baiter Harold Laski told why in the New Statesman, and, in so doing, showed why so much criticism of Churchill had been ineffective. Said he: "There is, it appears, no method available by which . . . dissatisfaction can be expressed without a threat to the unity of the nation, which no one desires. . . . Direct challenge is impossible, for the information upon which alone it could be made effective cannot be revealed without aiding the enemy." Mr. Laski went on to place himself clearly among the suspicious. Said he: "Personal contact is rare, save...
Dakar? The Axis reported angrily that the Allies had blockaded Vichy's port on the hump of West Africa and were about to seize it. If so, the Allies were aiming at a point of constant threat to the mid-atlantic, to Brazil (1,800 miles away) and to vital ports of entry in mid-Africa. But Allied action at Dakar could scarcely relieve Russia or even loosen the German hold on the Mediterranean...