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Herbert S. Allen Jr., Manchester, N.H., Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanley R. Ashby Jr., Orono, Mc., Groton School; Paul Coste Jr., Jamestown, R.I., Kent School; Roger L. Creighton, Belment, New Hampton School; John J. Dorgan Jr., Providence, R.I., Classical High School; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, Cambridge, Phillips Exeter Academy; Alan N. Houghton, West Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; John D. Kendall, Fairfield, Conn., Wooster School; Ernest L. Levinger, Fitchburg, George Washington School, N.Y.C...
...Indo-China-but only the White House knew how greatly U. S. action could affect their outcome. The President had long, since stated to the U. S. the meaning of those events-that they placed American civilization in greater peril than it had been since the days of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. But no word followed from the President on how greatly the measures taken checked that peril; no indications came of the course of action to remove it. The conferees hurried in & out of the White House; their polite evasions were jotted down by reporters as they came...
FRANK GARRATT Jamestown...
...great is the danger? Mr. Roosevelt said: "Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now." Who is the enemy? The President pointed to the tripartite agreement of the Axis powers-Germany, Italy & Japan-in "the threat that if the United States interfered with or blocked ... a program aimed at world control-they would unite in ultimate action against the United States." What is the Nazi program? He said: ". . . To dominate all life and thought in their own country ... to enslave the whole of Europe ... to use the resources of Europe...
...Sergeant Alvin C. York, 52, World War I's famed hero, now chairman of his draft board at Jamestown, Tenn., was so successful in urging registrants to volunteer before they were drafted, that he overtaxed the Army's local recruiting facilities. "They are rarin' to go," said...