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...International political cooperation based on the present unity of the United Nations. ("Such collaboration should, as quickly as possible, be universal. But practically, the initial nucleus is the United Nations. . . . Europe particularly illustrates the need for regional collaboration...
...Panzers swarmed through Poland, crushing everything before them. They pushed through the Lowlands and France to Dunkirk. The weapon Germany's enemies had neglected between wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...
...crippling decentralization goes even further. Another agency under Prentiss Brown rules farm prices. The only insurance that Davis will be just another electron flying around the nucleus of the OPA is the possibility of his referring disputes to stabilization director Byrnes. Function stands apart from power, for Wickard is a member of the Economic Stabilization Board while Davis is not. Wickard continues to represent the United States on the Combined Food Board although Davis needs information on lend-lease food aid to manage production and distribution. Overburdening executives is one thing; halving authority is another. If active organization and comprehensive...
Although head man Dick Harlow and line coach Lyal Clark have accepted Navy Carolina, a three-man nucleus consisting of Henry Lamar, Floyd Stahl, and Earl Brown remains from the regular coaching staff...
...education may cause it to suffer in the long run. The carefully developed faculties of many universities might irrevocably be decimated by such a suspension of the liberal arts for the remaining years of the war. Whatever there is in the way of liberal education will serve as the nucleus of post-war studies in the liberal arts. And although Army officials have expressed the opinion that general education is of little or no value in the training of officers, the Navy has gone to the colleges almost exclusively for its commissioned personnel. The interest of the Army itself through...