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...Aviation in war should no longer be an adjunct of the Army and Navy, but should be an independent arm used as the major factor in our striking force," Alexander de Seversky, noted flyer, plane designer, and aerial strategist told the newsmen's Institute on War Problems last night at the Faculty Club...
...Naval Supply Corps, whose school is located as an adjunct of the Harvard Business School, is now seeking to fill a quota of 350 men from throughout the United States. University men wishing to enlist, who must be Seniors between 19 and 26 years of age and have 15-20 vision, should not apply at a recruiting station but instead should make a preliminary application at Harvard. These applications will be graded here and then referred to the Supply Corps headquarters, where final selections will be made...
...lifeline's anchor, Pearl Harbor, an indispensable adjunct to any fleet operation in the Pacific and the only major base west of the mainland, looked safe from all-out attack even by suicide units. From the Navy's bases on Ford Island, in Pearl Harbor yard, and at Kaneohe Bay, on Oahu's windward side, Navy patrol planes ranged ceaselessly out to sea. Their great circles of reconnaissance lapped each other, lapped the circle of Navy patrols from Alaska's Dutch Harbor. Except for the Japanese spies that teemed in Honolulu, the Navy felt safe...
...wished to clarify the military situation. Pronounced he: "If the French had only followed my advice and developed use of 105-mm. guns instead of 753 they would have been able to halt the German attack." Contending until late 1935 that an air force was at best an unimportant adjunct of modern armies, he told his listeners during the Battle of Flanders that Stukas were of small use because infantrymen could be trained to shoot them down like ducks...
With these words Franklin Roosevelt last week approached the great problem of the post-war world. He spoke nominally to delegates of the International Labor Office, last surviving adjunct of the League of Nations,* but actually to the world. His outline of the task to be undertaken was so vague that it meant little as yet. But he had laid down the only basic formula for its solution: a decent standard of living and full employment must go together, for neither can be had alone...