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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks from the West, and we are going all the way with her to see that she gets it. ... We . . . have never . . . guaranteed . . . any particular frontier line to Poland. . . . The British view . . . stands expressed in the so-called Curzon Line. . . . Marshal Stalin ... agreed upon the need for Poland to obtain [territorial] compensation at the expense of Germany. . . . [He is] resolved upon the creation ... of a strong, integral, independent Poland...
...shortsighted and presumptuous action of U.S.O. President Barnard (TiME, Jan. 31) in halting further distribution of the pamphlet The Races of Mankind on the grounds of its being "controversial." Since when has a good dose of healthy "controversy" been anything but salutary? ... I shall do my damndest to obtain ., copy...
...good for his brethren rather than to be presiding over them. He must, therefore, be learned in the law of God, that he may know whence to bring forth things new and old; he must be chaste, sober, and merciful, ever preferring mercy to justice, that he himself may obtain mercy...
Having heard many rumors about the accomplishments of the chief physical education specialists stationed at NSCS, your columnist thought it would be a good idea to obtain a firsthand report about these energetic individuals. He found that they were very amazing persons indeed. Chief Clem, the only chief in the Navy who pronounces "Idea" & "Idear," shares with Mickey Cochrane of Detroit Tiger baseball came the distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team...
Warren Atherton, our American Legion National Commander, was speaking for honest-to-God fighting men . . . when he made his recent statement. . . . The men returning from this war are going to be American Legion members, pulling as one, to rebuild homes, obtain jobs and be fairly represented in official offices. Your "just deserts" of dead Japs and Nazis is just so much hooey, and won't get you nor any other man anything after the flag-waving is over...