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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is to inform you that the statement of NSA delegate, Edward F. LaCroix '48, in Friday's CRIMSON regarding the Harvard Displaced Persons Project was unauthorized and, in one respect, factually incorrect...
...city rebellions failed bloodily. Moscow deposed Li as a "half-Trotskyite" and ordered him to Russia for corrective education. "Lilisanism" was declared incorrect by Moscow. Mao Tse-tung meanwhile formulated a simple but fateful strategy: in an industrially backward country whose whole life depended on the peasantry, the Communists must win the peasants first, and give them arms...
...article about Headmaster C. A. Elliott of Eton is excellent, but the term "cane" is technically incorrect. Caning at Eton is only carried out by certain privileged boys of the upper school, and is essentially a punishment for delinquencies connected with the discipline of the boarding houses and on the playing fields. It has nothing to do with academic offences...
...single principle of public policy. Modern fiscal policy concentrates on the stability objective; but the Government must also be concerned with equity. Fiscal policy in a great inflation may well call for sales taxes and heavy income taxes on the masses. Indeed, the 1948 tax bill reflected incorrect fiscal policy because it involved reduced taxes; but it may well have mirrored correct fiscal policy in that it put an increased relative burden on the masses who account for the largest part of consumption...
Plenty is going on behind the U.S. atomic curtain, and once in a while a trickle of rumor, correct or incorrect, leaks through. Last week David M. Poole, an engineer working at Oak Ridge with NEPA (Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft), gave an exciting hint to the Baltimore Society of Automotive Engineers...