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WASHINGTON--The American Youth Congress, opening a three-day "town meeting of youth," tonight vigorously condemned the Lend-Lease British aid bill and the selective service act as "un-American...
...independence of the Western Hemisphere is challenged as much by forces within as by those from without, declared W. Barton Leach, professor of Law, as the opening speaker at the three-day session of the League of Women Voters' School of Foreign Affairs at Radcliffe yesterday...
...makes unexpected bedfellows in heaven as well as on earth. Because totalitarian thinking threatens U. S. democracy as much as totalitarian force, front-rank scientists and philosophers gathered last week for an epoch-making three-day conference with outstanding churchmen-Protestants, Catholics, Jews. The place: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree...
Biggest of the maneuvers and typical of the rest was the Battle of Northern New York, where 85,000 troops fought a three-day action while 15,000 more backed them up on the supply lines and in the air. Strategically it was also the most significant. In that area, east of the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg (captured by the British in 1813), Army troops would be gathered for flank assault if the U. S. should be invaded from Canada...
Thirty trucks crammed with bedraggled, unshaven peons rattled into Mexico City, last week following allnight, stand-up journeys from points as distant as Veracruz. They had been given firearms and bandoleers of shiny cartridges, and were promised a three-day holiday with a munificent 2½ pesos a day for cigarets and pulque-all provided by district politicos in the name of Land, Liberty and the REVOLUTION. On the outskirts of the city they met hostile crowds who shouted "Viva Almazán!" and pelted them with stones. Firearms went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were...