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...most colleges definite conflicts will appear between "standards" and defense. There can be no question as to the choice. The colleges, certainly, must be the watchdogs of cultural values, and no needless sacrifices should be made. But on the other hand the scholar cannot in any way block an all-out war effort...
...long record of muddling without muddling through, the Office of Production Management added a finally inglorious chapter last week. OPM sat down with management and labor to bring about the thing the U.S. needs most: immediate conversion of its automobile industry, greatest productive machine in the world, to all-out arms production. Little was accomplished...
...quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
...from Winston Churchill to placate him. It will take more than a cable to placate already independent-minded Australians if anything goes wrong with the defense of Singapore and other approaches to Australia. Australia feels now, more than ever, that her own lack of defense is partly due to her all-out effort to help Britain. Last week she watched the appointment of Sir Archibald Percival Wavell as Allied Commander in Chief for the Pacific (see p. 17) with mixed thoughts. She may tolerate British command only if Britain and the U.S. spare her enough material fully to equip...
...India's 240,000,000 Hindus. The Moslem League, strongest party among India's 80,000,000 Moslems, came out for full support to Britain a year ago. But the Congress has long insisted on some British guarantee of increased self-government for India as a condition of all-out war effort. This week, a group of Indian moderate leaders appealed to Winston Churchill for "some bold stroke of farsighted statesmanship" providing that henceforth India's "position and powers will be identical with those of other units in the British Commonwealth...