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Ebullient Pierre Mendès-France is a youthful (38) politician with a veteran's flair for gauging the public mood. Last week spring burgeoned in Paris, and it was inevitable that winter-weary, war-worn Frenchmen should feel that at least half their troubles were over. Sensitive Mendes-France sniffed deeply and bounced up with the most optimistic official word yet on French recovery...
Chaplain Dubois warned his church that it must mend its educational ways, for returning servicemen will have "little patience with half measures or compromises. . . . They will be ... men who have learned discipline and know sacrifice. To those who return, religion will be all or nothing. . . . [But] if [their] zeal and enthusiasm ... is properly directed, they will be the finest group of men the church has ever had as leaders...
Said a doctor standing by: "Look at that. First they take out the spleen, then they resect [cut and mend] the small bowel, next they sew up the rent in the colon. In civilian life any one of those would be regarded as a major operation." Before the two doctors finished, they had removed a total of nearly two feet of gut, which they tossed into a wastebasket...
...Selective Service's problem are conscientious objectors who were plucked from other camps as troublemakers and sent to Camp Germfask, Mich. Officials had hoped that at Germfask, an old CCC camp on the 95,000-acre Seney Wild Life Refuge in northern Michigan, the troublemakers might mend their ways. But there has been little reformation...
...labor, having helped re-elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...