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...After World War I the Dominion saved money by reducing armaments, relying on British sea power. It ignored Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson's plea for an independent Australian Fleet of 52 first-line ships by 1933. Today the chagrined Government finds itself with only two 10,000-ton cruisers, five lighter cruisers, eleven destroyers. New ship ways have been laid down, but not for several years is Australia's naval strength likely to give, say, a Japanese admiral cause for more than a slantwise smile...
...which many opposing people could agree in part if not wholly. On feeding Europe he stood with Anne Lindbergh; on the need for full and fair debate, step by step, he stood with her husband; on the need of expansion of production instead of rations, he stood with Leon Henderson and Franklin Roosevelt; on the need of planning the post-war world he came close to the "peace-without-empire" theories of Adolf A. Berle; on the need for cool judgment and sober action, he agreed with everybody...
...Ruth Henderson, 23, and Roberta Morton, 26, found that there were no more tickets for the Nebraska-Stanford Rose Bowl game to be had in Omaha. So they wired an appeal to Stanford's most famed alumnus, who lives olympically on Stanford's campus and who has helped a lot of people in one struggle or another. Back came word that Herbert Hoover would see that they got tickets...
Last month, the copper industry admit ted that there was a copper shortage and made a deal with Defense Commissioner Henderson to let 100,000 tons of cheap Latin-American copper into the U. S. this year (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week from the Defense Advisory Commission came reports of a new study of copper demand based on the fabricating mills running on Knudsen schedule - three shifts a day, sev en days a week. On the basis of the U. S.'s using Latin America's capacity output (perhaps 600,000 tons a year), it estimated that...
SAMUEL T. PEACE Henderson...