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Hewing to the propaganda line of universal, suicidal resistance, Japan's Domei news agency last week reported a new band of self-liquidating heroes. This time, Domei said, the "special attackers" were schoolchildren on Aka Island, in the Kerama group, who rushed at U.S. invaders, "blasting themselves with hand grenades." Too deeply moved for prose, the newspaper Mainichi published this elegy...
...between there are reminiscent essays, a travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch...
...Superman's" schoolmarmy sentences have taught grammar to thousands of schoolchildren. Only drawback: students do a week's work in one evening...
...Duggan. Recently seven Latin American ambassadors met with Hull to discuss the participation of their nations in the development of a world security organization. At the close of the meeting the proud ambassadors told reporters that they had been lectured, had been allowed to say nothing, and treated like schoolchildren. Further, the Latin American leaders now want to call a meeting of the Hemisphere's foreign ministers, to discuss postwar economic conditions. Hull has given this meeting no encouragement. Until two years ago, that would have killed the idea. Now the ministers are pressing it anyway...
Argentine schoolchildren got a lesson in civics last week. Short time ago the Ministry of Public Instruction ordered every last one of them to write an essay on an arrogant speech by President Edelmiro Farrell. High-school Student Martha Grinberg had an arresting commentary: she stood up in class, tore her copy of the speech into little bits...