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...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
...permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...
Period!'; or when any one is ready to fight will say 'You must not fight. Period!' " That was enough to defeat the amend ment...
Last week British agents found the one time wine salesman in the Hamburg apart ment of a 35 -year-old divorcee. Reporters first heard that he was lying abed, naked; later, that he had on pink and white pajamas. He asked his captors if they would see to the delivery of letters he had written to Montgomery, Eden and "Wincent" Churchill, professing that he had never wanted war between Germany and the western Allies. He was, he said, "on a mission for the FÜhrer...
...good old peacetime the U.S. never used over 400 million lbs. of aluminum a year. Last week the War Production Board announced that aluminum would be available immediately, priority free, for civilian goods. On top of this announce ment the Surplus Property Board declared that it will scrap all unsalable military aircraft in the U.S. from which can be produced an estimated one billion lbs. of second-grade aluminum ingots. Best Washington sources estimate that, as a result of these two orders, over 100 million lbs. of aluminum will be available for third quarter civilian production...