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This situation played right into British and Russian hands. Moscow was out to plague German interest in the Balkans. Britain was out to disrupt Germany's Rumanian oil supply and to hamper spring planting...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt vetoed the Logan-Walter bill in scorching words. Reasons: it would hamper national defense, flood the courts with unnecessary litigation, subject all administrative action to control of the judiciary, produce only delay, chaos, paralysis. He concluded: "Today, in sustaining American ideals of justice, an ounce of action is worth more than a pound of argument...
...price-fixing, and to taxing, are made mandatory by the economics of war. For the responsible leader of the opposition to urge otherwise can only be characterized as dangerous. It fosters a resentment on the part of many citizens, and of our business--men especially, which may well hamper the efficiency of the national defense effort, and which is doubly regrettable for the very reason that the increased regulation is unavoidable...
Taking issue with those "who frankly though silently, look upon colleges and universities as preeminently special preserves," President Conant said that such phrases as "higher education" should be abolished because they "connote false values, raise implications of snobbery and hamper our best efforts in persuading young people to pursue that course of study best suited to their talents...
Canadian industrialists bombarded the Government with complaints that for even 30,000 young men to get even 30 days in training camps was taking so many skilled workers out of factories as to hamper the main Dominion war effort: industrial production. Originally Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, when the draft bill was being prepared, asked Canadian Army bigwigs what was the very shortest possible training period for draftees which would make any sense at all from a military point of view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression...