Military leaders behind public will, says AP reporter Fay
Washington dispatch by Associated Press military affairs reporter Elton C. Fay argues top military leaders are behind public opinion on mobilization. The piece decries gripes as normal American behavior and stresses a strong need for better public relations to align military messaging with citizens who support the war effort.
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Elton C. Fay
Associated Press
Washington
Defense Department
Fay
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Armed Services
John Q. Public
No to Physical Exclusion in National Defense
A Charleston speech by former UNC president Gordon Gray criticizes excluding the lame and the blind from service. The writer urges drafting those unfit for combat into suitable roles, including women, arguing wars are fought by people not just soldiers.
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Gordon Gray
University of North Carolina
Army
Charleston
S. C
Armed Services
Gray
Navy
Marines
McCarthyism in Retrospect and its Tangled Outcomes
The piece critiques Senator McCarthy for smear tactics while noting the Remington trial shows a Communist spy inside government. It argues McCarthyism helped reveal errors in foreign policy though it also caused harm, urging truth, accountability, and a tougher stance against subversives within the State Department.
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Senator McCarthy
State Department
Senate
William Remington
McCarthy
Remington
Alger Hiss
United
State Acheson
Congress
Truman
Acheson
The Mad House British Commando Makes The Understatement of the Year
In late night action near the Chosin reservoir the U S Marines First Division and a detachment of British Royal Marine commandos face a massive Chinese assault. The combined force, about twenty thousand strong, hold a brutal line amid extreme cold while the night erupts in gunfire and bugle sound. A lone British commando crawls up a hill under inferno conditions as Chinese forces reportedly number 100 000 to 120 000 nearby.
Hutchins Moves to Ford Foundation Role and Editorial Snubs
The piece notes Chancellor R. M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago becoming associate director of the Ford Foundation. It references Greensboro News editorials mocking Hutchins and Browning allusions, and argues Hutchins’ educational reforms provoked debate while praising Ford money for education.
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Shekels
R. M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Ford Foundation
Greensboro
Robert Browning
William Wadsworth
Fords
Hutchins
Gerry
Ford
Laws of Chance and Religion Shape Early American Pact
The essay links ideas of inevitability in chance to historic acts shaping the American republic. It recounts Roger Williams’s banishment and Rhode Island’s founding, Lord Baltimore’s Maryland, and Georgia’s founding under James Oglethorpe, framing religious liberty and persecution as motor of settlement. It notes the Nauvoo and Utah migrations, the Smith trial, and Quakers in Philadelphia, tying 17th and 18th century events to enduring civic ideals and present-day social justice themes.
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Massachusetts Bay
Sieh
Gay Poe Wien
Tria
Roger Williams
Williams
Providence
Rhode Island
Lord Baltimore
England
Virginia
Free State
Maryland
Baltimore
Racial Prejudice and Patriotism in a Boston Call
A Boston caller challenges the author on race and communism, noting racial inequalities and anti Negro sentiment. The piece argues prejudice is ancient, linked to biology, and that America remains the best place to live, despite discrimination. It critiques deportation talk and stresses that leaving the country is a personal choice.
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Boston
France
United States
Paul Robeson
State Department
Robeson
Dryden Phelps
America
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