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...suggestions of C. R., former Premier of Madras, took great weight from his record. A former member of the Congress party Working Committee, C. R. has steadily urged all-out military effort against Japan. He led the Congress bloc which favored accepting the Cripps proposals; he suggested that Congress leaders try to reach agreement with the Moslem League. He went even further and proposed that Congress recognize the right of India's Moslem minority to form a separate State if it wished. C. R. is obviously the very reverse of doctrinaire. His eager sincerity is clear from his actions...
...defenders of Malta chalked up his number last week as they fought off the latest all-out Axis onslaught. For five days swarms of Axis planes had swept over from neighboring Sicily, only 60 miles away. Somewhere in the Mediterranean, during the distraction, an Axis convoy had probably pushed through to North Africa with supplies badly needed by Rommel. But the Axis had paid heavily for the transports' passage. In the five days of almost ceaseless combat, Malta's ack-ack guns and the R.A.F.'s Spitfires had destroyed more than 100 Axis aircraft. This week Malta...
...eighteen-nineteen draft is an integral part of an all-out war effort. But it is no more so than the induction of married men with or without dependents. This is the time for the Army to decide who shall go and when. It is time for a quibbling Congress to stop hamstringing military procurement, to let down the remaining bars and to allow military effectiveness to control the decisions...
After a spiritless third quarter, the few hundred spectators were re-awakened by an all-out 22 minutes. The left side of the Harvard line with Eli Berman, Jack Calhoun, and Drake forced their way forward again and again, only to fail because of lack of sufficient offensive support from the halfbacks...
Door-to-door canvassing of all students not enrolled in the University War Bond and Stamp purchasing campaign began yesterday in an all-out attempt to boost the total from the summer low of 35 per cent of the student body participating...