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...first shock of the Doolittle raid was tremendous, but the effect soon passed and the Tokyo Government turned the aftermath to good account in Japan. Anti aircraft defenses were reorganized, and a great campaign was launched to stimulate public air raid precautions. The Govern ment even distributed copies of LIFE maps of Japan, to remind the Japanese that the enemy knew where to strike...
...Washington this week a big spotlight was thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...
Uniform standards an procedures to govern the selection of enlisted men for participation in the Army Specialized Program was announced yesterday by the War Department. Men between 18 and 22 who have passed their basic training will be given a special standardized objective test for college aptitude, and a selection board will give its attention to any man who has a minimum score...
...stay a civilian, a man will have to justify his status by holding a job essential to the prosecution of the war. The draft director laid down the principle that will govern from now on: "I believe it will be the inevitable tendency of manpower procurement ... to give more weight to what a man is doing than to dependency...
There is a happy hobnobbing among politicians in Winston Churchill's Britain which cuts across most party lines. Tories, Liberals and Laborites govern together; Tories, Liberals and Communists speak for the same things from the same platforms. But top Laborites and Communists neither speak nor drink together. Labor's leadership, in fact, has decreed that no Laborite shall appear on the same platform as a Communist...