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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Friends Service Committee, while it has unquestionably been doing valuable work, is by no means the only organization with representatives in France. While I am not qualified to speak on behalf of [other] organizations . . . I can inform you that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which conducts large-scale relief operations in both Occupied and Unoccupied France, has representatives throughout those territories under the direction of American citizens...
Last week an armored division, a motorized infantry division, and aircraft practiced together at Fort Benning, Ga. In the U.S. Army, this event was news. Hitherto the Army has had neither the equipment nor the foresight to play at such modern elementals on a realistic scale...
...supremacy, and the Nazis quickly achieved it. An R.A.F. bulletin announced that all fighter aircraft had been withdrawn, explained: "Experience in this war has already proved that it is impossible to develop satisfactory fighter defense from a few comparatively ill-equipped airports if these are subjected to high-scale enemy air attack." So, the condition on which all who fought in Greece blamed the defeat there, now obtained in Crete: there were no defending R.A.F. planes to be seen. And on Wednesday and Thursday, although "Tiny" Freyberg said his men were "fighting with splendid courage," they lost the island...
Based on a sliding scale in proportion to the individual need, the scholarships carry a stipend of $1,200. Now in their fourth year, these latest graduate awards bring the total of winners...
...Bureau, which has become the most important source of special help for undergraduates since the Faculty imposed its ban on commercial tutoring schools last spring, has grown into a large scale organization in the past year; it was felt that the time had come to find out what students think of its services...