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Blimps or Reds? Godfather of this British phenomenon was a leftist-Tom Wintringham, who led the British Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain. Wintringham wanted to teach his countrymen, while there was yet time, the new war technique of infiltration and the organization of a people's army, which he had learned in Spain. Not until May 14, 1940 did he get any official backing. That day the earnest, professorial voice of the then War Secretary, Anthony Eden, appealed over the BBC for unpaid volunteers to prepare for action in the event of invasion. The Government expected...
...York City has asked its 35,000 teachers and other school employes to forfeit two weeks of their vacation, plans to use them in rotation (five groups) to teach civilian-defense precautions. One-fifth of the personnel will thus be on hand at all times, and all are to remain within 24-hour traveling distance of the city. Detroit, where most of the big motor plants have training programs of their own, also has its high schools teaching defense jobs round the clock. To qualify as factory inspectors during the summer, 325 teachers are studying shop processes...
Father Chase, once a seafaring man, used to lull little Ilka asleep with gamy sea chanteys. So young Ilka was hurried off to the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus where, it was hoped, the sisters might teach her manners. They also taught her "a very smooth game of pool." One of the Convent's buildings, the former residence of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, had contained a pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward...
Junior Warriors. Meanwhile Government Youth Training Centers, greatly enlarged since pre-war days, teach British children leaving school at 14 the mastery of machine tools, the use of electric welding. The Church Lads Brigades learn how to fight fires and repair bomb damage. Others, given "the privilege of defending their homeland against invasion," march and train with oldsters in the Home Guard. More than a million youngsters are on call for national service. Thousands of others learn navigation, signaling and aircraft identification in eager preparation for enlistment at 18 in the services. Most popular service-training organization...
Richard O. Ulin '38, 2G, who succeeded Douglas Mercer '40, 21, as secretary of the Union Committee this winter, left College yesterday for Pensacola Naval Air Station. He will first learn machine-gunning, then receive a commission to teach it there...