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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks ago, the U.S. press headlined the testimony of Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Wedemeyer, whose report on China had been suppressed by Secretary George Marshall, roundly endorsed immediate economic and military aid to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek (TIME...
...Force pilots) in their development of air cargo service on unscheduled lines (about 80% of all U.S. air freight is handled by nonscheduled lines). His pressure on the big operators to adopt new safety measures had cost them money. This week, after he was out, came a safety report which might cost them more. Over Chairman Landis' signature, the President's Air Safety Board put the onus of safety on the airlines, recommended that each employ a full-time safety director, proposed methods to "promote efficiency and safety'' among flight and ground crews...
Weld announced that he would immediately appoint a committee to go over University files, confer with the dean's office and HYD, and report their conclusions and recommendations to the Council. "It is not a simple case," he said, "and will take a great deal of examination...
Based on definite educational needs and not on a vague democratic ideal, the report should gain wide support. Yet opposition to some of the Commission's proposals has already cropped up, and more will arise, if determined action follows the report. Federal aid to state institutions has long been a red flag to professional supporters of states' rights, especially in the South, which needs aid most. Also, four members of the Commission have dissented from the majority which condemned the paralyzing policy of racial segregation in southern colleges. Added to these stumbling-blocks of blind localism and prejudice...
...Commission's report brings into full view the vast educational needs of the country; it serves as an honest beginning for a job of constructive effort that must strengthen and expand colleges before a half-hearted retreat into days of academic scarcity begins. Yet neither the problems the Commission attacks nor the proposals it offers are now. The past few years have only made the situation more precarious. The importance of the report lies in whether it will spur state and federal governments to use it as a guide for building up higher education to a point at least adequate...