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Contrary to tradition established in recent years, the real strength in this year's freshman squad lies in the running events rather than in the weights. The varsity weight men, this year, as in most recent years, have been leading the Crimson to all its track victories. 'Fifty-two weightmen, on the other hand, while not displaying outright weakness, have been forced to take a secondary position behind a host of really strong runners...
...freshmen have noted with alarm some of the times and distances in recent Dartmouth meets. It will take a lot of fight to beat a 4:35 mile, a 22.0 second 220, a 10.2 second 100, a 1:58 half, or a Javelin heave of 190 feet...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
...other two arguments are basically one-sided. Morale may undoubtedly go up in the freshly-armed countries, but morale is a nebulous thing. Arms aid is certainly not the only morale-lifter, even if the recent moves of the U. S. towards committing itself to European military intervention, if only in case of war, have sent hopes climbing in the West. Furthermore, a lot of people think that some of the governments Acheson wants to arm don't warrant this elevated morale--that aid would be channeled into uses (such as the Dutch found for their equipment in Indonesia) which...
Meanwhile, the Communists have successfully sold themselves as the true reformers, the genuine nationalists, the fighters against imperialism. Their agrarian program, their well-behaved armies, and their recent firing on British warships support these claims...