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...Ax for Chip...
...that of a U. S. town and the people in it from 1914-1918. It shows what they were like, what they did, felt, said, hoped, how they argued, worked, fought, lived, died, made war and made peace. It offers no special pleading, grinds no economic or historical ax. Its thesis is the belief that nations, like individuals, cannot understand their present and their future unless they remember their past correctly, which the U. S. has a tendency...
TIME does not believe its account was distorted. And to be plain as well as truthful, TIME does not favor U. S. entrance into the war. The only ax it has to grind is that U. S. citizens shall have the facts, welcome or unwelcome, to form intelligent opinions on what the U. S. must do to look after its own interests. Also to be plain, there are some circumstances in which the defense of the primary interests of the U.S. may require going to war. TIME believes it as dangerous to refuse to consider that fact as to engage...
Ecuador. Despite Nazi-inspired editorial condemnations, Ecuador has expressed wholehearted enthusiasm for continental commercial interchange. But Foreign Minister Dr. Julio Tobar Donoso will be grinding his own Ecuadorian ax at the conference, will attempt to solve border differences with Peru...
...sculptured animals, penguin and bear) encloses a large central pit, where, hacking away at a huge granite head of Leonardo, stands Sculptor Fred Olmsted. Helen Forbes works on an egg tempera. Dudley Carter, ex-logger and machinist, hews away mightily on 20-foot redwood sculptures with a double-bitted ax. German-born Herman Volz and 16 assistants work on a huge mosaic. All around the hall, busy as mud-daubers, miscellaneous painters, sculptors, weavers, pottery workers get on with their jobs while the visitors watch...