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Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, will speak on "The Place of Post-War Thinking in the War Effort" at a meeting of the Council on Post-War Problems tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. The meeting is open to all members of the University. Since this is the first meeting of the Council in the fall session, it will be largely organizational. Plans for the winter will be announced, including a series of large public meetings, forums, and study groups under Faculty guidance...
Congress habitually resolves to make the next tax bill a tough one. Somehow, the next tax bill never turns out tough enough. If inflation is to be prevented, the cost of the war kept within reasonable limits, and a post-war deflationary collapse headed off, the tax burden must be closer to fifty billions than to the projected twenty-five billions. Congress has legislated on price control, but the nasty half of the job is yet to be accomplished...
This organization, distracted by rivers of six per cent beer and small talk that ranges from post-war planning to post-mortems on the current collapse of the Yanks, must compose, rewrite and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. After that hour, and in the innumerable in-between minutes, News Editors occupy themselves with the pleasures of CRIMSON life, baiting Room men, the Business Board and themselves...
...World, or the Old? The central suspicion regarding Winston Churchill was that either he did not realize, or he did not care to admit, that the war was really global, that on his side the fighting effort, the lives and the post-war hopes of many races and colors were involved. Winston Churchill had traveled far to dramatic meetings with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. He had closeted himself with high U.S. officers. But he had shown no disposition to draw Russian and Chinese officers into a unified command. While his Government censors kept news of Indian rioting from...
...Freedom or the Empire? Winston Churchill's only comment on his post-war hopes was contained in the vague phrases of the Atlantic Charter. They were so vague as to make many Britons uneasy. And recently the 20th-century St. George seemed to have expended an amazing amount of energy on nothing more than parliamentary jockeying...