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What to do with Germany is more difficult. Of course not all G.I.s ponder the problem, but it furnishes food for many an interminable bull session in lonely artillery batteries, company command posts and airfield barracks. G.I.s agree that it is impossible to exterminate this foe. The next best thing, many of them believe, is to carve Germany into numerous smaller states and then keep permanent guard to make sure that the Germanic states do not reunite into a powerful Reich. Perhaps this is not farseeing, but the G.I.s have not yet heard a better plan...
...Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk and Army Nurse Corps Superintendent Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield scrape the bottom of the barrel for nurses [TIME, Nov. 20], let them ponder the fact that there are several thousand registered men nurses in this country legally denied membership in the Army Nurse Corps...
...Well might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...
Without regard to their source, or to the Willkie candidacy, Harrison Spangler, genial symbol of professional Republicanism, could well ponder these words as a considerable answer to the Republican dilemma...
Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...