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...Belgium and Holland will not necessarily mean that America will be feeding Germany. Careful control of the shipments, allowing only one at a time to pass through the blockade, together with local supervision of distribution, will reduce all possibilities of Germany capturing more than three days' supply at the utmost...
...America will not stay out of the war merely by persons asserting bravely in speeches that she will not go into the war. We will however stay out of the war . . . if the men of Britain are supported to the utmost and immediately. This can only be done by the granting of enlarged powers to the President...
...done by the individual draftee, and not left up to the Army. The clerical job of looking into each man's possibilities would be a terrific undertaking, and the Army not only cannot do it but is not doing it. The Departments with relevant offerings are doing their utmost to train those who are willing to learn. But men who kid themselves into letting higher powers do their thinking for them are likely to end up scraping their cheeks and shoulders on the inside of a tank for $21 per month...
Shinwell on Flag Days. The House of Commons' inveterate gadfly, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, brought into open debate what was in many British minds. In a powerful, reasoned and disturbing speech he shocked the House by declaring: "Unless we can with speed and with the utmost efficiency reorganize our resources . . . victory may be beyond our grasp." Laborite Shinwell went on to denounce the Government's propagandist optimism ("The people of this country have no desire to be fobbed off with an exaggerated optimism which has no foundation in fact'') and the Government's inconsistent announcements...
Yesterday Bill Bingham made public a letter to referee Red Friesell, central figure in three officiating storms this fall, in which he expressed the utmost confidence in Friesell's ability as a football official. Bingham still considers him "the best in the country...