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Last week the Memphis Commercial Appeal cracked the quiet, printed the story of the attack and of the sentencing of six Negro soldiers at nearby Camp McCain. The sentences (10 to 15 years at hard labor) did not halt local clamor for local justice. Neither did the news that seven more soldiers were being held for court-martial...
...From the bomb-shambles that once was Hamburg, civilian jitters spreading through the Reich-making it necessary to evacuate Berlin, sending a million homeless Germans shuffling down roads to nowhere, rousing scared German workers to strike, stirring imported foreign labor to clamor for repatriation...
...Lesson taught by the second campaign in Burma documented Winston Churchill's arguments (see p. 29) against the clamor in the U.S. for quick action in the Far East. The major effort to reconquer Burma will have to be made by sea, with landings on the western and southern coast. And between Allied India and that coast is a Japanese fleet in being, which, unless checkmated, could murder landing troops...
...sudden and complete Allied victory in Tunisia set up a clamor of urgency over all of Europe. Once again it had been proved that the German Wehrmacht was not invincible. To peasants and patriots in occupied countries the certainty of eventual Allied victory was a staff to lean upon until guns could be used again. Satellite states squirmed. In Germany, the "master race" looked furtively over its shoulder...
...Suit In the eight months since the Government filed its anti-trust suit against Associated Press (TIME, Sept. 7), the clamor of A.P.'s defense has been incessant and loud. Fortnight ago came the first clear non-A.P. voice. Up rose 57-year-old Zechariah Chafee Jr., ruddy Harvard law professor and one of the nation's great authorities on free speech. His statement came near not being published at all. Behind this controversy was a history important to all newspaper-reading citizens. The A. P. suit was filed Aug. 28, 1942, shortly after pro-New Deal...