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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More than a hundred Protestant clergymen, speaking through the National Council Against Conscription, picked Sunday, Aug. 22 (a week before draft registration) as a day "of mourning and repentance" and the time to start campaigning for draft repeal...
...last week it seemed probable that the new state of Israel, already recognized by 15 nations, would seek and get U.N. membership at next fall's meeting in Paris. It was time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time, to start asking what kind of nation Israel...
Last week, to fill a gap in U.S. information, Royall announced a survey of the least known of the possible alternate routes-across the watersheds of the Atrato and Truandó rivers in northwest Colombia. A joint U.S.-Colombian commission will start a full-dress survey within 60 days. The work will take about six weeks, will cost $150,000. The findings will be considered by the U.S. Congress when it gets around-perhaps next year-to redefining U.S. canal policy...
...Stoke's ballroom, the candidates were greeted by Colonel J. R. Pinsent, 59, chairman of Britain's Civil Service Selection Board. Colonel Pinsent invited the candidates to patronize the manor-house bar (Scotch, 30? a nip) in their free time, added a warning: "Naturally, if you start wrecking the furniture, we would probably have some doubts as to your fitness for government service...
Beyond Glory (Paramount) is a canonization of West Point and Model Cadet Alan Ladd. At the start Ladd is accused by an ex-plebe (Conrad Janis) of hazing beyond the line of duty, and of lying to bring about the plebe's expulsion. As the story unravels in flashbacks, things look pretty black for the hero. Before he came to West Point he fought in World War II, and apparently his best friend died in battle because Ladd was a c-w-rd. And now Ladd is engaged to the poor fellow's widow (Donna Reed...