Word: modern
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...this evening's session, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will join Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, in discussing changes in American attitudes and policies since the war. Two other speakers will be the Rev. Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary and Colston E. Warne, professor of Economics at Amherst...
Rumanian literature will be the subject for an informal talk in English by Nicolas N. Lennitiu 2GB at the Modern Language Center at 4 p.m. Friday. The talk will include readings in Rumanian and playings of Rumanian music...
Juniors concentrating in modern foreign languages will be eligible for credit for one year of European study starting next Fall, the Faculty ruled yesterday...
...North Atlantic Treaty nations, --France, England, and the Benelux countries--and to "associated nations." About half of the equipment would come from U. S. World War II surplus stocks. The material would be tailored for use against a big land invader, specifically Russia, including jet-driven aircraft, modern artillery, and small arms; the countries receiving the material would probably lump their armed services under a single command such as General Montgomery's brand-new "Uniforce," although the U. S. would retain no control as to the material's final disposition or use. The equipment cost one-and-a-half billion...
...very doubtful whether the strongest possible Western European forces could do much to slow down an invasion from the east; even a completely equipped "Uniforce" would be terribly overmatched by whatever the Russians threw against it. The "Bridgehead" concept is getting more and more antiquated as the pace of modern war picks up; military strategists like to think that if we must fight a war, we should be able to pick a better operating area than historically vulnerable Western Europe...