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Chairman of American Defense, Harvard Group, Perry wrote in "Shall Not Perish From the Earth," "Isolationism is both short-sighted and unfaithful."
"One wonders," he went on, "whether we in the United States will be far-sighted enough to profit by the example." It was probably with this in mind that President Conant sent a letter recently to all men at Harvard affected by the draft, advising them to decide immediately whether...
If men in these professions had been allowed to volunteer at the start, or had been drafted, the shortage today would be very serious indeed. One wonders whether we in the United States will be far-sighted enough to profit by the example. The question touches both our national defense...
It is now clearly evident that the British Government was far-sighted in developing the idea of "reserved occupations" before the war. The first schedule of these occupations of January, 1939, listed a thousand or more categories of employment which were then regarded as essential to the defense of the...
First Mr. Roosevelt announced that the Red Sea would not be considered a war area, and therefore open to American shipping. With Nazi troops entrenched in North Africa, this comes dangerously close to making unconvoyed American cargo ships vulnerable to Nazi torpedoes. Yesterday he disclosed to his press conference that...