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...intimidated by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breach of international law and as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to re sist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterally proclaim...
Taylor and Brinton, Chairmen of the Division and the Department respectively, both proclaim the need for general courses in medieval and modern history. These would not be so elementary as a Freshman course, nor so comprehensive as a graduate course, but they would cut across national boundaries and offer a comparative picture of whole periods. They would allow the student to trace the main cultural, political, and intellectual developments of these two periods, and specialize on any one country from that broad base. He would have to spend far less tutorial time plugging up gaps in his coverage, and would...
...true even if a man turned 36 on Oct. 17. Practically, of course, as registrants near 40, their chances of being wanted for the Army will steadily lessen. But youngsters who turn 21 between now and 1945 will be subject to registration and drafting (when the President chooses to proclaim subsequent Registration Days for them...
...election might mean to them. Of 200 prominent Jewish leaders polled by the Republican National Committee by week's end, four had replied that they would vote for Roosevelt; 60 said they would vote for Willkie, 40 said that they would too, but did not want to proclaim it from the housetops. Among the 60: Benjamin Buttenwieser, member of Kuhn, Loeb; Lessing J. Rosenwald, former chairman of the board, Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Roger W. Straus, co-chairman of the National Conference of Jews and Christians...
...last war remember the disgraceful spectacle of learned men in all the belligerent countries of 1914-18 sustaining and idealizing a war which we now know to have been on both sides the most shameful exhibition of military imperialism in modern times. In Germany, professors were the first to proclaim the justice of the Kaiser's war, and to acclaim his invasion of Belgium and France. In England, professors made speeches, wrote articles and books, headed propaganda agencies, which painted the sordid European struggle as a Hl-like crusade to end war, to save civilization, and to make the world...