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...Arlan Baillie in your Letters Column, TIME, Dec. 7. Had I an 18-year-old boy in service I'd certainly hate to see him in Lieut. General McNair's command. And now, according to the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 4, there's a plan afoot to register the 14-year-olds for military training! Why not ten or twelve-year-olds, or can't they learn to hate that early...
...more behind it. The ultimate goal was to open and develop Brazil's western territories for future generations, possibly for thousands of impoverished emigrants from Europe when the war is over. The men and women threading their way up the river by boat, by pack mule, and afoot had pioneers' jobs: to lay the foundations for the development of rubber plantations, to build airports and highways to link the reclaimed land with...
Last week the story of how the U.S. press was let in on North Africa was told. First inkling that something was afoot came to U.S. correspondents in London early in September when Brigadier General Robert McClure, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower's lean, polo-playing public relations aide, met with the executive committee of the Association of American Correspondents. Newsmen were informed that there was to be an expedition "somewhere." The Army wanted better arrangements, better coverage, better, secrecy than it got in the Commando raid on Dieppe...
Such abuses as these deserve recognition and investigation. Unless they are explained, Admiral Land, advocate of shooting all labor organizers at sunrise, should himself face a Congressional firing squad. The tendency at present, with bigger issues afoot, is likely to be one of soft-pedalling, but just such an attitude is daily barricading the progress of the war. If United States revenue is being converted in one government department to encourage the profiteering that is banned by others, an obvious leak has been left untouched...
From crossroads and farms cut out of piney woods the farmers streamed at sunup to Tylertown (pop. 1,100), the county seat and only post office. They traveled afoot, in model-T Fords, in mule-drawn wagons, in school busses. They carried 5,000 fried chickens, 350 turkeys, enough pies, cakes, salads and bread to load pine tables 1,000 feet long and feed 5,000 people. The town was gay in bunting, flags and welcome signs...