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Said Churchill: The rejected Cripps proposal of post-war dominion status and a possible Hindu-Moslem partition "is the settled policy of the British Crown and Parliament." (While he spoke, responsible Hindu, Sikh and Moslem minority leaders demanded a wartime national government...
...post-war conditions might raise emigration from Britain. Also, with birth and death rates both falling, Britain's population would have an increasing percentage of oldsters...
...bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly-he was a pacifist-Berlin-born George Grosz conceived an emetic loathing for man and all his works. A magazine illustrator in Kaiser Wilhelm's reign, he turned a ferocious drawing pen on post-war Germany, ripped at its vitals in thousands of drawings that resembled the scrawls of a shell-shocked child. His savage pictures, famed in art circles the world over, showed thick-lipped, cigar-chewing bankers leering at mincingly decrepit prostitutes; mad-eyed, marble-jawed soldiers fighting crazily in corpse-strewn...
...previous U.S. student conference has been treated to so many big-name speakers. Besides the President (who promised them post-war peace & plenty, on a national hookup), the students heard Mrs. Roosevelt ("lecturer and writer"), Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, WPB's Bill Batt, retiring Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih. In the Department of Labor's magnificent auditorium, delegates applauded speech after speech of unimpeachable commencement prose, rallying them to a United Nations victory and a just People's Peace. What they missed was a specific program...
These conferences can be of great help in determining the stand of students from many countries on problems of policy important at the present time and in the post-war world...