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Earlier reports that General Marshall would be assigned that supreme field command were not baseless (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.). The U.S. Chief of Staff has long been the leading advocate of a cross-Channel invasion; he has long wanted to serve in the field as a tactician; and before the Teheran meeting, Washington and London were convinced that his appointment was all set. President Roosevelt had seriously considered able General Marshall for the invasion job. But he had excellent reasons for finally agreeing to keep the Chief of Staff at his vital post in Washington...
There is no place today for unsound sensationalism in a branch of the government. A people at war should not be disturbed with baseless charges against men holding instrumental positions in public life. The Dies Committee, ruled by a Chairman who disregards objections from fellow committee members, and lashes out at all critics, can create nothing but strife and disunity in the nation...
...spread the gospel of Christ must often have been a source of strength and consolation. True, his enemies in Spain and Austria and at the Roman Curia accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Habsburg fifth columnists. And, alas, the charge was not entirely baseless...
...scholars and the teachers ought to know these facts. Some of them do. President Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has shown conclusively how baseless is the call to enter this war to save our democracy from destruction, and how certainly from destruction, and how certainly this destruction will come if we do enter the war. President MacCracken of Vassar College, has again and made clear the imperialistic character of the European war, and how fatal to every higher interests of the land will be our entrance into it. Other educational leaders, some at Harvard, have spoken in this same...
...Estelle Lynn Werner to sue the estate of Daniel J. Leary, late lumber baron, father of international bachelor-girl Cosmopolite Beth Leary, for $1,750,000 in securities which she claimed was given her in token of "our beautiful friendship." Commented Leary's executors, replying to her suit: "Baseless . . . utter fraud typical of the immoral . . . relationship out of which it has grown...