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...Navy has about 7,000 men here, the Army about 6,000. Air Force characters drift in & out. Those who want company pick up White Russian or Chinese girls. Restaurants and cafes have beer, Scotch and vodka, steaks, pastries and swell Chinese food. It all seems wonderful after the healthy but tasteless service chow...
Policy of Drift. Clement Attlee had arrived at a time when U.S. foreign policy was in a state of flux. The firm tone of President Truman's Navy Day speech was not followed by firm action. Fortnight ago, Pundit Walter Lippmann had complained: "It is quite clear . . . that our foreign relations are not under control, that decisions of the greatest moment are being made in bits and pieces without the exercise of any sufficient overall judgment ... by the President and his chief advisers...
Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...
...said no. Britain had pledged her word that India should have self-government when the war ended. Britain must keep her word. If she was to win Indian good will, it was vital to break the three-year political deadlock at once. The situation must not be allowed to drift dangerously while momentous events brewed in Asia. Said Wavell grimly: without a new offer backed by the Government he would not return to India...
...editor was in; another out. These latest of many shifts were news because they served to underline the current editorial drift of the most influential of the little leftists: the Nation and the New Republic. The two sisters with one complexion are now firmly on a "my ally, right or wrong" policy towards Russia...