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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomatic Front. To the White House went British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, for the culmination of the extraordinarily cautious visit begun three weeks ago. For two hours and 15 minutes Franklin Roosevelt and Anthony Eden talked high diplomacy. They were flanked by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, British Ambassador Viscount Halifax...
Domestic Front. Franklin Roosevelt might have preferred to keep his eyes turned east all last week. He could not. On the home front, long neglected, another kind of crisis clamored for attention. Food shortages were a national bellyache. Meat and butter rationing had begun. Farmers begged and pleaded for help (see p. 12). Franklin Roosevelt had "solved" the food problem just three months ago, by transforming Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard into a Food Czar. Now he gave Wickard's power to hardheaded Chester C. Davis...
Unless we're corrected again before thin goes to press, here's the "straight dope" on mid-semester grades. We had begun this column with "Correction, Please," but we took it back, because we were right the first time. Cumulative mid-semester grades will be made up and posted for all courses by April 10. These grades will serve to tell each midshipman what his academic performance has been to date. They will take into consideration the two hour quiz, all other written papers and reports, class recitations, plus the instructor's judgment of individual aptitude, which, in fact...
...different Service Command from Harvard and Yale. Reports from other colleges, furthermore, indicate that even where schools were scheduled to begin, troops have not arrived on the date set. M. I. T., for example cleared its dormitories for basic trainees several weeks ago, but they have not yet begun to arrive, probably due to difficulty which the Army is having in finding soldiers willing to return to college...
Because of the oft mentioned manpower shortage, the Interceptor Command has begun a drive among Harvard undergraduates through Phillips Brooks House to round up a number of men to work in their office taking calls from air raid spotters...