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Painters got ready to scratch another name off a State Department door. The latest resignation: genial Laurence Duggan 38, Director of the Office of American Republic Affairs, for 14 years a career diplomat, longtime close friend of recently resigned Under Secretary Sumner Welles...
Married. Camilla Sewall Edge, 21, brunette daughter of New Jersey's Governor Walter Evans Edge, cousin of Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall; and Army Lieut. Edward Brooke Lee Jr., 26, Princeton ('40), of Silver Spring, Md.; in Trenton...
Beginning a series of 11 Monday lectures on Economic Reconstruction sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration last night in the third floor lounge of Littauer Center, Professor Sumner H. Slichter spoke on the "Problems of Labor." He was complemented by Professor Douglass V. Brown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who offered comments on the topic...
...that the Japs were attacking in considerable strength. Same day Admiral Mountbatten said the attackers were only "raiding parties." Pundits everywhere were stumped. Said one U.S. radio commentator: "This looks serious." A columnist: "Professional military men . . . are not fretting over some gains in those border mountains." Republican Congresswoman Jessie Sumner (who wants to abandon the war in Europe, make MacArthur supreme anti-Japanese commander) said "military authorities" had told her that many U.S. troops had no guns to fight the Japs at Imphal (where there are no U.S. troops...
...Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...