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Given all the breaks, the Allied Control Council would have to blueprint a miracle. By decree of the Big Three at Potsdam, the Council must destroy Germany's war potential without destroying her ability to subsist. It must select and encourage industries which do not make a war potential (in the long run, most industries do). It must calculate a minimum economy for Germany, and take steps to hold Germany to that minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Toward the Razor's Edge? | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Another defended the elective system which "allows each student to select the program most beneficial to his future plans and aims," and others noted the danger of abolishing the elective system to student's vocational interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH LOG POLLS BONER ON "GENERAL EDUCATION" DISCUSSION | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...chairman of the Council, Jack Bainton, then asserted that the Spec board had not demonstrated its capability to select its successors. This was on June 8; a four-to-three majority decided the Council's policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freedom of College Newspaper at Stake In Columbia Spectator's Campus Battle | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...Army and Navy should now be abandoned as a policy, and particularly the present system of fitting limbs with insufficiently trained enlisted personnel. The Veterans Administration should adopt a more realistic and equitable policy in purchasing artificial limbs so that a veteran may actually be enabled to select the best limb available for his case. The American public wants him to have this choice, but present Veterans Administration policy prevents him from making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Pearl Harbor Report | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Said the Speech: "Canada . . . should possess a distinctive national flag. You will be asked to appoint a select committee ... to consider a suitable design. . . . The Government also considers that it is advisable to ... clarify the definition of Canadian citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Pomp & Program | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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