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...Aside from local campaigns, probably the widest editorial comment was given Republican Ham Fish's renomination in New York's aristocratic Hyde Park district-Said the Chicago Sun: "If you want to use primary results as a test of what people think about the war, Hitlerism, etc., it is best to do so at a distance. Those who rejoice at 'Ham' Fish's renomination, from 1,000 miles away, are far more likely to be Nazi sympathizers or appeasers than the neighbors who vote for him because they regard him as a likable blunderer...
...more men. The demand for manpower threatened the widest disruption of business and family life the country had ever known. The call was for men for war factories, for the farms, for the services. The U.S. had registered all its men from the ages of 20 to 44; now it prepared to list the oldsters. Franklin Roosevelt announced that on April 27 the grey, the bald and the stooped, 45 to 64, would be registered, to be called where needed in nonmilitary war duties...
Defense regulations allowed only a printed statement: that the secret session was "devoted to the question of the defense of Canada in its widest qualification." But all Canada knew what "widest qualification" meant. The threat of a German fleet in the Atlantic, the possibility of Japanese invasion of Alaska and British Columbia demanded second thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which...
...global struggle of World War II, it is likely that the Navy will take over more unified commands than the Army. But in the Far East, where the widest application of the scheme has been set up, British General Sir Archibald Wavell is in supreme command of the United Nations, outranking U.S. Admiral Tommy Hart, head of all Allied naval activities...
...conceive of this journal as bridging the gap between college publications and the commercial magazines. Our pages are open to the widest diversity of opinion. We are vitally concerned with the democratic defense against totalitarianism, but we do not capouse any further, more specific, political or economic doctrines...