Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From G.I.s to generals, U.S. military men were fed up with the occupation. General Eisenhower's September report, released last week, reflected this feeling and took a critical view of Allied cooperation. The Russians, who like Eisenhower and understand candor, became more cooperative immediately after the report was published. In a subsequent letter to President Truman, Eisenhower proposed that military occupation in the U.S. zone be replaced by civilian control as soon as possible. Truman agreed. Redeployment had so thinned the occupying force that it lacked enough experienced men for direct control of the German people. The next phase...
What had aroused them was the 300% increase in Canada's tariff on seamless steel boiler tubing, which had been belatedly discovered (TIME, Nov. 5) in Canada's new budget. They reminded the Cabinet that those increases, perhaps petty in themselves, were indefensible in view of the Liberal Government's repeated declarations favoring free trade...
...that almost every living thing is man's brother. They are thus careful not to harm any form of animal life, even the smallest insects. Gandhi once (1928) offended them deeply by killing a helplessly maimed calf. The Jains are humane to women & children but take a dim view of mankind in general: billions of years ago humanity was very good, they say, but in less than 40,000 years from now, all men, having reached the bottom of a "bad" cycle, will be less than one foot tall...
...report, which went along with and specifically enlarged upon the '39 report's recommendation of compulsory introductory area courses, neglected the tutorial question. The '42 report, entitled "Necessary Elements of a Liberal Education," expanded on the fish's--or student's--point of view on tutorial...
...Indebted to Dean Hanford for reviving this old story to emphasize that the General Education Report must be discussed from the point of view of the student. So far this term, most Harvard students have been pretty apathetic about the General Education proposals, and consequently a lot of people are running around with their heads full of misconceptions about the whole thing...