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...eight-college council also included M.I.T., Wellesley, Radcliffe, Simmons, Poston University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Suffolk Law School, and was chaired by Benard H. Fox '39, who directs the activities of the United Nation Association in Boston...
...average U.S. citizen as that of the West Coast's uprooted Japanese. This week, in a new book, The Governing of Men, Lieut. Commander Alexander H. Leighton, a Navy Medical Corps psychiatrist, suggested a key to better understanding. After 15 months at Arizona's vast Poston Relocation Center as a social analyst, Commander Leighton concluded that many an American simply fails to remember that U.S. Japanese are human beings...
...Governing of Men (Princeton University Press; $3.75) is a full report on Poston, which-because of censorship -was the subject of many a wild rumor in the early days of the war. To Commander Leighton's detached eye, the war was only a minor cause of Poston's troubles. Many of those troubles sprang from the universal resentment men feel at being confined against their will, and from the universal conflict which results when different types of people are thrown closely together. For the 18,000 Japs at Poston were of all types. There were Christians and Buddhists...
...evacuees Poston (a conglomeration of cheerless wooden barracks on the unshaded desert) seemed like a concentration camp. The sun was cruel; dust was everywhere. The hospital had little medicine, food was often badly cooked; there was overcrowding, lack of privacy, discomfort. The camp's overworked administrative staff had been thrown together as hastily as the buildings...
...Clinton Poston Biddle. Professor of Investment Banking and Director of the Division of Research at the Graduate School of Business Administration, will become Associate Dean of the School. He has been an Assistant Dean since 1921. The position of Associate Dean has just been created, and includes the duties of supervising the work of research at the School...