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Said Foreign Minister Molotov, at a luncheon celebrating the first anniversary of the Anglo-Russian Twenty-Year pact: The treaty will endure "not only during the war for war purposes, but during the peace for peace purposes...
...humor. The statesmen saw what a long way the three Allies had come within a year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear's cry for a second front, yesterday's disdain for the Anglo-American military effort. The Soviet press now gave due and admiring credit to American Lend-Lease, to the air blows over western Europe, to assembling invasion armies. The Russians were told that their future must be linked to that of their allies. English had become a primary instead of secondary...
...economic concessions, such as the nominal surrender of foreign extraterritorial rights, including Japan's. He has tried to curb inflation in the occupied zone. He has altered his propaganda against Chiang Kaishek: no longer is the Generalissimo painted as a fiend destroying China, but as the tool of Anglo-American plotters. Most alarming, he has pushed the organization of Wang's puppet army, now several hundred thousand strong...
...advance of all nations, that the United States and Britain must turn their attention to China, the Middle East and those undeveloped regions, wherein Willkie, with business acumen and political insight, sees the great possibilities for world progress. Willkie calls for a truly global council to replace narrow Anglo-American planning. And Willkie, impressed and reassured by the spectacle of the U. S. S. R., praises Russia because "it works" and urges cooperation with the Soviets...
...successfully interwoven chain of command was partly responsible for the unity. Last week, for instance, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill visited a "truly Anglo-American" air unit: "Here is an American group. The next higher formation is ... another group, a British one commanded by a British air commodore. This commander in turn is under another British officer, Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, head of the Tactical Air Force in Northwest Africa. Marshal Coningham is under American Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, who is under British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder, who in turn...