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Factual. To Latin American diplomats in Washington, two days before the first report of his resignation got into print, came a rigidly proper letter from austerely correct Sumner Welles. Its import: Since Franklin Roosevelt had accepted his resignation, he hoped, most sincerely, that the ties of friendship would remain unchanged...
...dead and wounded men, 4,600 planes, 7,200 tanks, 5,000 guns, 24,200 trucks. The Red losses, Berlin announced, were 1,250,000 men, 12,500 tanks, 500 guns. Even salted down, these sets of figures indicated that the battle dwarfed Sicily in blood and import...
Propaganda. The Economist was not always respected and influential. When James Wilson, an ambitious politician (later Finance Minister to India), founded it, his primary purpose was to propagandize against the British corn laws (regulations on the import of grain) and support the laissez faire movement. He shrewdly mixed some political and business articles in with the propaganda, managed to gather some 3,000 readers, a small profit and a journalistic reputation before he died in 1860, leaving his paper to his six picturesque, strictly Victorian daughters. They and their descendants, apparently endowed with Founder Wilson's zeal and luck...
...colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
Boston, as we have been howling for the past few weeks, is a jazz desert. Art Hodes is undoubtedly good, but Lawrence remains inaccessible except for the hardiest hikers and most jazz-starved enthusiasts. And the commendable plans of a group of Lowell House Freshmen to import bands for series of Saturday afternoon jam sessions are destined to be stillborn unless an angel appears suddenly...