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...national sphere, a majority of Harvard undergraduates recorded themselves as in favor of more government regulation than existed in 1938. Twenty-seven per cent thought this control too extensive; the remaining one-fifth recommended that it be kept about the same...
...means of opposing a Russian sphere of influence would be a Catholic Federation, pivoted on a Catholic Austria-Hungary, supported by Danubian agrarian parties and possibly involving exiled Otto Habsburg, who apparently has potent friends in high places. Poland would be a northern anchor, Italy the southern anchor of such a federation. But, should restoration of the Habsburgs meet with too great resistance from socialist Freemason Czechs and pro-Russian Yugoslavs, an Eastern European Catholic Federation might be contrived, binding Catholic groups together in a Balkan cordon sanitaire from Poland to the Mediterranean...
Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb. 15). In this new sphere, air-minded Clare Luce sprung an old American phobia: that a shrewd and calculating John Bull is going to hornswoggle a naive and idealistic Uncle Sam unless somebody watches...
Russia was as uncommunicative about her plans for postwar Europe as she was about military details. Common sense indicated that Russia, for her future security, will demand European concessions-possibly Petsamo in Finland, warm-water ports in the Baltic, a sphere of influence in the Balkans, access to the Black Sea straits. Common sense also indicated that, unless a general and open agreement is reached soon on joint postwar policies, the Allies' present comradeship-in-arms may turn into a barracks brawl. The first chairs were already being thrown by pro-Soviets and anti-Soviets in the Balkans...
...Navy uses on the same subject. Said Tojo: "The success or failure of southern reconstruction [in the conquered Pacific areas] depends chiefly ... on the efficiency of water transportation. . . . Japan does not have surplus vessels, for Japan must maintain transportation within the extensive area of the Greater East Asia sphere, while she must [also] continue her gigantic [war] operation, continuously fighting one decisive battle after another." In other words, U.S. attacks on Japanese merchantmen, cruisers and destroyers have hit Japan at her weakest point...