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...7th grade: U.S. slavery and its abolition...
Abandoned by his friends, deserted by his more powerful ministers, scorned by his people, Ramon Castillo had come to the end of the road called Prudent Neutrality. There was only one course: resign. This Castillo did at the headquarters of the 7th Infantry. He had gained office through accident and stayed in office through fraud. Now he turned over the reigns of government to a military junta which did not seem to know where it was going but at least was aware that prudence in 1943 means cooperation with the United Nations...
Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army with no real air transport beyond its long-starved domestic system (for inter-airdrome deliveries of engines, propellers and other freight). In January 1942, President Roosevelt ordered two squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group to Mac-Arthur's relief, via the South Atlantic, Africa and India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment...
...Army members at the School are classified now as 2nd lieutenants MA-AUS of the reserve. They will go on active duty around the end of June, first going to Fort Devens for induction, then returning to the Medical School where they will continue as Privates 7th class, in uniform and barracked in Vanderbilt Hall...
Sibelius: 7th Symphony (N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Between this and last month's 7th (by Vladimir Golschmann and the St. Louis Symphony, for Victor), Sibelius fans will find it hard to choose. Beecham's has slightly more vitality. Golschmann's version is better recorded...