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...first U.S. reaction to the speech was one of overwhelming support for his declaration of opposition-short of nothing -to Naziism's threat to the U.S. The second was questioning. Of what did such opposition consist? Next day, at a special press conference, he told reporters he would not ask Congress for convoys or for repeal of the Neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Acts and Intentions | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Close to 500 Mil Sci students will participate in the review, which will consist of four battalions of motorized artillery and one battery of horse drawn guns, along with a regimental band from the First Division Regular Army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC UNIT TO BE INSPECTED WEDNESDAY | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

...lunch-stuffed sufferers who think a cut inadvisable. During the second half-year the same lectures are handed out again, though the course is supposed to last a whole year. There is no textbook. The lectures are often good, particularly those delivered by Mr. Davis. Most of them, however, consist either of the commonplaces necessarily known to anyone who can pass an entrance exam with 595 or else of the reading of student themes for instruction by bad example. The former could be well taken care of by a textbook and the latter horror should be mercifully eliminated. Since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A's Stepchild | 5/14/1941 | See Source »

...Basra, Iraq's main port, at the head of the Persian Gulf. El-Gailani acquiesced in the landing and publicly subscribed to the 1930 Anglo-Iraq Treaty of Alliance which justified it ("The aid of . . . Iraq in the event of war or the imminent menace of war will consist in . . . use of railways, rivers, ports, aerodromes and means of communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Holy Skirmish | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Army, no longer using the Alpha test, plans to substitute in its place the General Classification Test which abandons the old Alpha principles and concentrates on determining special potentialities of soldiers. More simplified, the new tests consist of questions in recognizing numbers, knowledge of enough vocabulary to understand orders, and judgment of distances and spaces requiring powers of deduction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hygiene Department Psychologist Says New Army Test Harder to Fail | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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