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Great Britain itself has trained the leading Indian politicians in British universities to absorb British ideas of Freedom and Democracy...
...School of Humanities will absorb the old School of Letters (literature and languages), include arts, history, languages and literature, speech and drama, music, philosophy. Cutting across department lines, it will have a basic course devoted to "study of man as a rational and artistic being seeking to understand himself and the universe in which he lives...
...Bill Batt announced that U.S. manganese output for 1943 will be stepped up 1,400% over 1940 (to 600,000 tons a year) by developing high-cost mines in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada. The Government will absorb the excess price, sell the metal to fabricators at what imported concentrate would cost them...
Stressing physical fitness for military service, and supreme devotion to the state, the Nazis have imbued the youth of the Reich with a spirit of self-sacrifice that is amazing, Kruse asserted. "Beginning with grammar school, young men absorb a steady stream of Nazi doctrines both in school and in the Hitler youth movements that have become compulsory...
...consuming public can buy defense savings bonds, but doesn't. Since Pearl Harbor their sales have about tripled, were $660,000,000 in 26 days of February. But Morgenthau figures less than one-seventh of the nation's income earners own bonds. Hence, to absorb the dangerous purchasing power of this vast group, compulsory savings or a deferred-wage plan may prove necessary...