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...Today many British liberals favor immediate Dominion status for India. Some favor immediate independence. But today, also, many liberals make perhaps the strongest possible case for extreme caution in Britain's India policy. The fact that the same case is adopted hypocritically by some archimperialists obviously does not impair its merits as a case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty...
Said the Social Security Board last week: "Many of these persons have left coveted jobs in commerce and industry and will eventually return to such jobs. Unless their services with the Government are covered they will impair or lose their status under the old-age and survivors insurance program." The Board had "particularly urgent" legislation* to suggest...
...courtship of Betty Grable doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to anybody. Such a criticism is not without its point; this bomb-ridden little romance does trot merrily along through a couple of air-raids and an artillery barrage or two, but it doesn't seriously impair the effectiveness of the film's stronger features...
...Dirksen a Republican from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
...Limited and temporary salary cuts in Departments where "there is any unanimity of opinion as to cutting salaries rather than materially impair teaching." The University's traditional policy has been to attract brilliant but high-priced men from lucrative professions by paying for them liberally; hence salary cuts were banned in the present situation...