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...shook their heads, quoted the Koran, muttered in their beards. Whence came these foreign notions in the heads of Islam's young women? Through their charitable "Drop of Milk Society" they had boldly arranged a gala ball at a French officers' club, boldly announced that they would discard their veils and dance...
From an almost forgotten quarter came a loud, firm "no." It was the voice of the Marines, who fear that unification would end the identity of their proud Corps. Said Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant: "We can envision no gain ... in any reorganization which would discard a tradition and an esprit. . . which have become inspiring parts of the heritage of our people...
...retorted that these were needless worries. He said steps were being taken to supply the needed manpower and cord, declared his tests showed the new tires would be good enough. Officials pooh-poohed an Associated Press report that Indiana highway police had found synthetic tires faulty and had to discard a third of them after 1,500 miles because they developed heat blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand up so well that the average driver...
...neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...
Past Error. Before 1941 Boris had said: "My ministers are pro-German, my wife is pro-Italian, my people are pro-Russian-I am the only neutral in the country." The decision to discard his neutrality, rather than defend it against Nazi infiltration, was his prime mistake...