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Four days before Pearl Harbor, Hearst wrote in his column In the News: "The war in the Orient is between Japan and China. . . . Our sympathies are with China but our interests are not with China. . . . Certainly it is not Japan which is precipitating war with the United States...
Pointing directly at the preparation of undergraduates for war work in Washington and in the quartermaster corps of the armed services, the Economics Department has developed broad plans to orient its program to the nation's wartime needs. Although in the blueprint stage now, concrete advancements will be made this summer and next fall...
...losing this war by default. We spent two years backing out of Europe, and it will take us less time, apparently, to back out of the Orient. The Russians alone are advancing, and they can hardly be expected to continue without support. Unless we have the courage and the initiative to give up passive defense for active offense we shall very shortly find ourselves executing a strategic retreat from Cambridge, and retiring to defend Belmont Hill...
These talks, given every Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the Kirkland House Common Room, are also intended to give Mil Sci students an idea of the causes of this war and to orient them to the present situation...
Faux Pas. The critics, upset by defeats in the Orient, not only made charges of British bungling and greed, but also attacked the Government's entire conception of the world crisis. Countless Britons had been shocked to hear Anthony Eden, on his return from Russia, declare: "The trouble with Hitler . . . was not that he was a Nazi at home; the trouble with him was that he would not stay at home." To many this sounded as though their Foreign Secretary, and by inference others in the Government, had a curiously warped notion of Naziism...