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...leaders were aware that even if the great mass of Indians were ready for a general uprising-and there is no evidence that they are-it would have little chance of success while India was packed with troops (mostly Indian). It was also clear that Gandhi's fast, hitherto an infallible weapon in reaching moral victory or political compromise, had achieved neither. The one channel left to them was political action, and the chances of effective action were low indeed last week...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's Bern correspondent reported that Mihailovich had resigned from his post (War Minister) in the Yugoslav Government. In denying this story, the Government in Exile confirmed a hitherto unofficial report that negotiations to end Yugoslavia's tragic schism were under way. Said the official statement: "The tendency at present is toward greater understanding." Mihailovich has been in contact with some of the minor Partisan groups. But the main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small...
...part of our policy to get Turkey into trouble. . . . Disaster to Turkey would be disaster to Britain and all the United Nations. Hitherto, Turkey has maintained a solid barrier against aggression from any quarter, and by doing so even in the darkest days, she rendered us invaluable service. . . . It is of important interest to the United Nations and especially Britain that Turkey should become well armed in all the apparatus of a modern army, and her brave infantry shall not lack the essential weapons which play a decisive part on the battlefield today. These weapons we and the United States...
British Minister Macmillan put in a word for U.S. expediency-a policy which the British hitherto had not warmly approved in North Africa. Political administration and policy had to be secondary to military need. Said Macmillan, explaining the continued dealings with Vichyites: "There is lots of difference between a traitor and one of the weaker brethren who chose the path of least resistance...
Bunks passed out of the Crimson court picture, Air Corps-bound, in a game that saw a hitherto unbeaten Princeton basketball team, victors over "unbeatable" Dartmouth, leaders of the Eastern Intercollegiate League (considered one of the nation's best this year) and called third best in the East, beaten, and beaten convincingly by a Harvard team that had spent a miserable season in the League cellar, unable, till Saturday night, to live up to its pre-season press notices. The score was 36 to 32. There was more to it than figures can tell...