Word: pre-war
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...equal chance for promotion. It was not Army policy, for obvious if strictly utilitarian reasons, to put Negro officers in command of whites. The Army has commissioned only some 5,000 Negro officers. It had the justification it sought, in the Negro's lack of pre-war military training and his lower educational level...
With spangles, and paint, and hot dogs, and clowns, and acrobats, and everything else connected with the big top except barefoot boys watering the elephants, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show On Earth" is now in Boston--through Sunday--in all its pre-war glory...
...eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic of pre-war days...
...Captain Freycnet(Claude Rains) that they are fugitives from Devils Island, all of them French patriots sworn o return to France and fight the Boche. The leader of the five is Matrac (Bogart) who was the victim of a trumped-up charge of murder and treason, in politically upset pre-war France...
British Role. Churchill digressed for a moment to mention the oft-underestimated part played in the war by Britain's home Islanders. The Royal Navy, which has borne the brunt of the successful antisubmarine war, has lost 41,000 officers and men-just over 30% of its pre-war strength. British airmen in the R.A.F., until now carrying on the main attack against Germany, have lost 38,300 pilots and crewmen killed, 10,400 missing...