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...demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad can be more than a defender of the status quo. "Clark Hamilton's" composition, "We Will Have Dictatorship," points down the same collectivist path but winds up at a wholly different destination, for society here is described as hurtling headlong toward the Right. The author postulates an intense economic depression after the war, the resultant final collapse of capitalism, and a great concentration of power in the hands of the President. He then dilutes this bitter pill by admitting that there will still be an elective process and there need...
...London reported that Soviet Russia, headlong in its winter offensive, had heightened its demands for a second front against the Nazis in Europe. Norway, rotten under conquest, strategically placed for sustained pressure on the Nazis, lay within naval and military reach of Britain. R.A.F. bombers, striking at Paris suburbs (see p. 23), raised the hope that perhaps in Germany's Occupied France the British might find an effective air front; Canada's No. 1 soldier hinted that they might even return in force to the French coast, feel for soft spots, press on toward another western front...
They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...
Says Kernan: wars are not won or lost in outposts like the Philippines; they are decided in headlong clashes at the great centers of military strength. His own plan is for a U.S.-British offense against Italy ("the solar plexus of the Axis") this spring, using three-fourths of the U.S. Fleet, at least half of Britain's, every bombing plane and every transport of both nations, an A.E.F. of 200,000 men a month...
...title in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League but in view of the remaining games on the schedule, only two of them--Dartmouth and Princeton--are conceded much of a chance. That's the picture as the circuit ends a week of intensive battling and plunges headlong into another...