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...mean that a second front would be opened this year, the Russians and many others wanted to know precisely what it did mean.* The Russians had not learned that Anglo-Saxon utterances must be weighed with a delicate skepticism. They had been brought up to take what their Govern-ment said and like it.* Besides, the Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep in their awful present...
Professor Hagan from the University of Illinois is to take over some of the instruction previously carried by Assistant Professor Merle Fainsod and Dr. Lincoln Gordon, both of whom are now in Washington. Professor Hagan, who has been teaching the courses on govern- ment regulation of industry at the Illinois for the last six years, will collaboration with Professor William Y. Elliott in Government 29a, which will deal primarily with war-time controls of economic life, and will have charge of Government 29b, dealing with government regulation in time of peace. He will also tutor a number of students...
...have set them free, if they are merely to exchange one kind of bondage for another! What reason is there to believe that American engineers, doctors, movie executives and others, after only four months' training and without precise knowledge of the necessary foreign languages, would be fitted to govern countries better than the natives themselves? It is certain that they would not. It is only reasonable to suppose that all the countries now subject to foreign rule are planning exactly what is to be done for their own relief when freedom comes. Time enough then for us to give...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
Disclaiming some Jewish ritual, notably Rosh Hashanah (New Year), Boake Carter observes Saturday as the Sabbath and celebrates the Passover. He eats nothing that is not kosher, though he prefers to call it "Biblically cooked." When he was studying the rules that govern his diet, he made a trip to Manhattan's aquarium and "checked on the habits of forbidden lobsters, crabs and oysters...