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Last week every nation faced a crisis, but none faced a crisis so complicated and peculiar as that of the U.S. It was no crisis akin to the violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered...
...immediate military importance of the Yugoslav overturn is that Germany can hardly attack Greece with ease or comfort without having Yugoslavia secure. If Germany has to conquer Yugoslavia first, she will have at best an ugly little campaign to fight, and afterwards nasty guerrilla warfare that will cost both time...
...Hugo Lundquist, was once slated to be A. F. of L. organizer in the West Coast aircraft industry. The trial board's recommendation was that he also be found guilty of Communism. In a meeting as stormy as the first one, friends of Lundquist mustered enough votes to overturn the board's verdict. The court also decided that Editor Stone was guilty of a technical infraction in failing to bring his charges before the members instead of hawking them in the bootlegged Aero Mechanic. At week's end, 21 other cases were still unsettled. Vice President Keppler...
Most that the Republicans could have done for themselves and the U. S. in this week's Congressional elections was 1) overturn the Democratic majority (261 to 174) in the House, get set to stymie re-elected Franklin Roosevelt when & if they saw fit; 2) up their sickly bloc of 24 Senate seats into a healthy minority...
...Negroes really expected to see the U. S. Army agree to put black and white in the same outfits on an equality basis, they reckoned on a thumping overturn of precedent. Only four Negroes have ever graduated from West Point (none from Annapolis) and today the Army has only two regular Negro line officers: Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, commanding officer of Harlem's 369th Coast Artillery (National Guard), and his West Pointer son, Lieut. B. O. Davis Jr., military instructor at Tuskegee Institute. Before 1940's emergency the Army had only four Negro regiments of regulars (two cavalry...