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...Hardship & Ingenuity. The Axis bombed Fort Lamy, capital of the Chad Territory. The damage was repaired, but the Fighting French thereafter fired so indiscriminately on approaching planes that for many weeks Pan Am pilots landed at another airport...
...were held in solitary confinement under severest conditions of hardship for six months on charges of espionage and violation of the National Defense Act. Miss Argall was tied up and handcuffed when she was arrested and was repeatedly slapped until her face was cut. [CBS Representative Walter R.] Wills was slapped during the whole examination period, lasting more than three months. He was forced to squat for hours in Japanese fashion, with the result that he still is suffering an injury to his left knee. [Jasper N.] Bellinger was slapped, kicked on the shins and forced to stand for hours...
...change is the addition of steam roller tactics to what was an advisory system. Planning to fill all deferred-status quotas at the earliest possible moment, Yale's advisers may assume the guise of recruiting officers. This will work little hardship on the men now in college who know the difference between V-1 and Army enlisted reserve and who have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within a few weeks...
Second is financial dependency. Whether he has a family or not, a man may be deferred because he has dependents. This kind of deferment is based entirely on the hardship that might be imposed on others...
...change is the addition of steam-roller tactics to what was an advisory system. Planning to fill all deferred-status quotas at the earliest possible moment, Yale's advisors may assume the guise of recruiting officers. This will work little hardship on the men now in college who know the difference between V-1 and the Army enlisted reserve and who have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within...