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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...text of the SDL petition, which was signed by most of the audience, read: "To avoid the costly mistakes of the democracies in the past when help came always too late and too little, we, the undersigned, most urgently request the United States Congress to pass as soon as possible the Lend-Lease Bill, as amended by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, to insure Britain's defeat of Hitler...
...University has recently received the following communication from the Academy of Athens, addressed to leading universities and academies throughout the world. The letter is signed by Marines Geroulanes, president and Georgies Soterion, vice-president, of the Academy of Athens. The text of the letter follows...
...lend-lease bill he sent to Congress in effect presented a blank check for Congress' signature. To no U. S. Congress had ever gone such a bill (see col. 2). No man could read its simple text, sweeping such enormous powers into the hands of the Executive, without seeing at last that the very presentation of such a bill meant that a point in history had been reached, a point of immeasurable gravity. Last week many a U. S. citizen was reminded of the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt's first term. But in 1933 the field...
...simple steps taken by the Department would clear up this whole mess. First, some one professor should be made responsible for re-organizing the elementary courses. Math A and Math 2 should adopt more modern texts better organized for what Harvard intends to teach and for the way Harvard intends to teach it. Different sections could be required to do a minimum amount of identical work in that text; and giving the same exam to the whole course would be pressure enough on the instructors to enforce the rule. An advanced section in Math 2 could take care of concentrators...
...text of the cable read: "Full support to the English people and especially to the students of England in your people's program for democracy, security, and peace. You are building the England we want...