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Associated Press Correspondent Clark Lee witnessed the subsequent bloody mop-up of the squadron's remnants, was pleasantly amazed by the cool efficiency of U.S. scouting forces, had first-hand glimpses of the Japanese fighting man in action. Reporter Lee's story...
With second semester defense courses only three days away, the very relevant question of what courses are acceptable to specialized Army departments remains unanswered. Most of the new courses were organized without the supervision of Army representatives, and by instructors who lacked first-hand acquaintance with the details of Army requirements. Speed-up courses in languages and sciences have been arranged, based on the general knowledge that physicists and interpreters are needed. But many of these have been announced without even hinting at the physical requirements that may disappoint a trainee after a year of study. And insufficient attention...
Without necessarily taking part in regular settlement work, undergraduates interested in community surveying settlement houses, boys work, juvenile delinquency, or housing will have an opportunity to hear local authorities on those subjects speak, and may organize in special groups to study problems first-hand...
...such evidence in the press? Can he give us any basis for his belief? There has been evidence that many German people are not pro-Nazi; that many of them regret Hitler's power, and deplore the war. But from Shirer's "Berlin Diary" down through the lesser first-hand accounts, no good reporter has suggested that these people have any power, or (even) that most of them are not supporting a war they did not want. Unfortunately, once involved in it, it becomes a war for Germany, as they see it; not a war for Hitler...
...human and real as a nightmare is this first-hand account of the Fall of France by a soldier of the French Army. That enormous and intricate catastrophe might have cramped the hand of a Tolstoi. Hans Habe, previously a minor novelist, has turned it into the most vivid book World War II has yet produced. He tells nothing he did not see with his own eyes. But he saw the disintegration of a great people...