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...obscurations. As Drew Middletown points out in last Sunday's Times, most of our fighting forces seem to be relatively unconcerned about the kind of post-war international policy our nation adopts, rather inclining towards a sort of 1938 isolationists normalcy. But such a course would be the shortest road to national suicide. Isolationism was a practicability, however immoral, before the airplane came, before international trade became so critically important, before the disease of fascism. Today isolationism is no longer even a practicable possibility. The issue is very simple, that of World War III. Ages ago, Cain asked...
...season the Count's followers were countless. They made him the shortest priced winter-book favorite (5-10-2 on Feb. 14) in 69 years of Kentucky Derbies...
...present the right news to the public in the most efficient way and in the shortest possible time. To do this requires a system. . . . Correspondents are kept up to date and informed of the general military situation. . . . Before a big offensive I see that the press is ready and collected and are at the right places at the right time. In other words, we shall see they get front-row seats in the stalls when the curtain goes...
...concentrated technical education, in which a man is a soldier before he is a student and where there is but little place for the liberal arts. The Army is facing a severe manpower shortage; it must plan to train as much officer material as possible in the shortest feasible time. Three months' basic training will be obligatory under its program: once at college, military students will follow a prescribed curriculum. Three courses will probably be technical, the fourth a syllabus of what the Army regards as valuable in a liberal education, probably prescribing the outlines if not the attitudes which...
Aircraft's increasing ranges have changed the old concept of world air trade out of all knowledge. Most of the world's worthwhile trade territory, except for South America, lies in the Northern Hemisphere. The shortest way to points in that hemisphere is by Great Circle routes. All these routes go over the top of the world (see map), where airmen have already demonstrated they...