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...around Winston Churchill, Britain was stirring with hopes that the war would bring great democratic changes. It seemed no more than a minor symptom last week that the Archbishop of Canterbury, plump, vigorous William Temple, should continue the trend of his Malvern conference (TIME, Jan. 20, 1941) by proposing that the Government take over the issuance of credit (i.e., banking). Referring to Britain's five great banks, * he declared: "Money, or credit which does duty for money, has become in effect a monopoly...
...deaths, 28,585 hospital cases-4,528 of them overseas. Mr. Stimson hastily added that the disease is not contagious nor dangerous to the civil population. He could not say definitely what the disease is nor what causes it. (Jaundice, usually thought of as a disease, is really a symptom-coloration of the skin by bile pigments. When a man has jaundice, his doctor has still to figure out whether he has a liver disease, an intestinal upset, a blood disorder...
...Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain) is nearly dead. DeVoto has done more than any other critic to kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related...
...brokers the same profits they made in 1928. No one denies that farm incomes are low, or that farmers need relief. But no member of either house of Congress has yet acknowledged that the real heart of the farm problem is too many farmers, and that prices are a symptom, not a cause. Any permanent cure for the difficulty must by nature be a gradual process, not a temporary profitable panacea...
...that war has climaxed the debacle, the Freshman of the forties is tempted to see in it the ultimate expression of his problems, and to feel that military victory is the final answer, military effort the final method. But the war is only the latest and most terrible symptom of a deeper and more complex disease. Today's Freshmen must learn not only to fight but to think...