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They have not had far to look for examples of unjustifiable Jim Crowism. The Navy, which refuses to permit colored men to rise above table help and valets (and which has made Annapolis so unpleasant for any Negro appointed that none have ever graduated), is chalked up as a hopeless outpost of feudalism by even the most optimistic colored leaders. The Army has shown a few glimmers of mildly progressive intelligence. A token air force of 100 pilots is being organized at Tuskegee as an answer to the charge that Negroes are admitted only to the infantry. But the military...
...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
...last week fast approached its end. For President Roosevelt ordered the 750 men of the Fourth U.S. Marines to depart. That order said very simply that war between Japan and the U.S. was very close. An order to stay might mean death to the Marines fighting against hopeless odds. The order to depart meant death for the International Settlement...
...ways out are worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...
...continent is the only way a Crush Hitler policy can be effected, yet though this is our declared aim, the possibilities of a successful AEF are openly discussed by no national leaders. The facts that relate to it are by no means encouraging. To me they look hopeless, and because of that, I think the defeat of Hitler and restoration of a lasting peace must be approached in a different way. The facts that bring me to this conclusion are: 1. the failure of Hitler to invade England over 22 miles of water, 2. the failure of the large...