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Recreation has a firmly established place in the Armed Forces. As our military establishment has grown and become an important segment of our national life, recreation programs in the Armed Forces have also developed to the point where they are becoming accepted as an important but normal phase of the American recreation movement. Outdated philosophies of military recreation based on charitable considerations are being replaced by modem concepts of the function of free-time programs in military settings.

Lecture before the Royal united service institution, London, Oct. 26, 1949.

Formosa has the unenviable distinction of having proportionally more men under arms than any other country. With resources and manpower being poured into keeping approximately 600,000 men in readiness for an eventual return to the mainland the military presence inevitably pervades Formosan life. Military needs conflict with personal freedom and restrain economic growth. Yet for all the efforts of the Nationalist government—sustained by huge amounts of American aid—the changing international scene and difficulties within the Nationalist forces make a return to the mainland less likely as time goes by.

Although the basic responsibility for disaster relief lies with civil agencies, national, state, local, and private, the Armed Forces, because of their mobility and organization, are frequently utilized to lend urgently needed aid in emergency situations. National disaster relief, including military, is authorized by the Federal Disaster Act of 1950 and co-ordinated by the Federal Civil De fense Administration when the President declares a "major disaster." However, compelling humanitarian requirements inevitably put the military relief machin ery in action the moment disaster strikes. The magnitude of several recent dis asters has widened the scope of Department of Defense relief. Beyond the prompt emergency aid rendered, under the authority of the 1950 Disaster Act the Department has helped in postdisaster rehabilitation of public works and basic production facilities in disaster areas.—Ed.

Since one out of three male graduates of journalism schools now goes directly into military service, opportunities for the use of journalistic training are of great interest to students and their advisers. The author made this study while on leave from the Minnesota faculty as an officer in the U. S. Navy.

The relation of an international military authority to the industrial (once nuclear) powers in a disarmed world is an intriguing one. We should not expect much success in finding an ideal strategy for it. It is hard enough to find one for the United States, Britain, or the Soviet Union in the familiar world of competitive military force.