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...terrific headache. You can't just pick up 150,000 persons and put them in a concentration camp. It would disrupt the life of the Islands and pose a bigger problem than any we are prepared to handle at the moment...
...place. And "exceptional cases" is simply another way of saying can otherwise complete their degree requirements." No man will be allowed to take his Generals at mid-years unless he is able, scholastically, to finish all the necessary courses ordinarily required of a four-year student. It will only disrupt the first half year to the extent that each applicant will have to take a half, or possibly a full course more than he had originally planned to take in his Senior year. But if he is in danger of being drafted before June, he should at least be given...
Immediately the air was blue with protests. The space had been reserved for expansion of nearby Arlington National Cemetery. The Army scheme would require new roads, new utilities, thousands of new houses in already crowded suburbs in northern Virginia. It would disrupt the east-west axis running from the Capitol through the Washington Monument across the Potomac. It would break up a fine vista...
Lenin early urged British Communists to affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front...
Wildcats. Others saw the situation in a somewhat different light. They felt that it was the U.S. that would be put on the shelf, unless labor deloused itself of Communists who were doing their native best to distract and disrupt the nation's defense efforts...