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...which the Navy does not want it to print-that was the gist of the interpretation last week by onetime Publisher Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, of his unilateral understanding that the press will censor itself. Equally extreme was his interpretation of what the Navy thinks is unfit to print...
...most part MacNeice looked at the U.S. from behind literary curtains. He knocked heads with American intelligentsia, taught English literature at Cornell. Last November he returned to England, was found unfit for military service; he is now engaged in war work...
...speak of fitness and efficiency we shall have to ask ourselves: Fitness and efficiency for what? A man may be fit as a paper hanger without being fit to decide the destiny of a continent. . . . A man without legs is unfit for walking but may be an outstanding fighter pilot." These challenging questions & answers were made last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by two South African doctors. Drs. Ernst Jokl and Eustace Henry Cluver of Johannesburg. To determine the physical fitness of thousands of their countrymen, they had made many and varied experiments...
...Infantry, the Infantry, they drink up all the beers, The Cavalry, Artillery, and Corps of Engineers, They couldn't lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from...
...photogenic intellectual--was blasting some of the arguments used to oppose the Hoover Plan for feeding the five small democracies. "Of course it may help the Germans, but it will help as a great deal more. By starving those peoples we will be developing a race of weaklings completely unfit for operating a liberal democracy...