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...other articles perform the Guardian's usual feat of clarifying the issues without bringing the solution any nearer. Of the two undergraduate authors, Jerry Brown, '44, has done the better job. His "Mcdicine for the Masses" is a clear and orderly exposition of the problems and definitions involved, but the conclusion cannot be termed either novel or startling. Richard Weinberg's "Paying for the War" contributes little. The leading article of the issue, General Arnold's three- and-one-half page dissertation on "The College Man in Aviation," is a hodge-podge of personal reminiscences, a muddy description of life...
...ahead to find weak spots. Small parties of soldiers followed the scouts, stabbed here & there, and called in stronger forces when a foothold was seized. Thus they crossed the Bilin, and moved slowly on toward Rangoon's last important river barrier, the Sittang. The same advance carried them nearer & nearer to the one railway which connects Rangoon with Lashio, at the foot of the Burma Road...
...settled briskly to his task. This week the British conceded that renewed enemy pressure had forced Imperial forces back 30 miles nearer to Rangoon. The Allied line halted, reformed on the Bilin River's west bank. Rangoon's last stand seemed imminent...
More definite than the Freshmen were upperclassmen on their stand with Russia; over 90 per cent of the upperclassmen in Winthrop, Leverett, and others voted for aid to Russia, with the Yardlings standing nearer 80 per cent...
...conducted from Pearl Harbor, some five thousand miles away. Needless to say, this is not a very efficient means of blockade. The only alternative to such a blockade is for the superior American Battle Fleet to engage the Japanese fleet, and wipe it off the sea. But without bases nearer to Japan than Pearl Harbor, we have no means of forcing the Japanese fleet to engage in a battle action...