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...Russian people listening in on radios to Stalin's May 1 Order of the Day last week heard him use, for the first time, the unqualified Casablanca phrase: "Unconditional surrender." They heard him refer, with a warmth and force he had never before displayed, to the "gallant Anglo-American air forces" over Europe, to "the victorious troops" in North Africa, and to "one single, common blow" by the Russians in the east, the U.S. and Britain in the west. And they heard him say: "A new blow is approaching when the Red Army, together with the armies...
...they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia and the Anglo-American coalition; yet, if possible, the Polish Government and the postwar integrity of Poland had to be preserved...
...recent editorial maintained, we mustn't praise them too much lest--mirabile dictu--the conquered peoples become afraid the Axis is going to be beaten. The Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth the votes given the U. S. and would reduce England to the position of North Dakota. The Great Journalist thinks the Britons too decrepit to resist anyway...
Colorado's Anglo-Irish Governor John C. Vivian permitted a bill designating Oct. 9 as Leif Ericson Day, in honor of the "discovery of North America in 1000 A.D.," to become law without his signature. Reasons: 1) Colorado's Scandinavians would be mad if he vetoed it; 2) Colorado's Italians would be mad if he signed...
Last fortnight, Spain's Foreign Minister Count Francisco Gomez Jordana made a more open attempt to bring about peace between the Axis and the Anglo-American Allies. Pointedly referring to the worldwide danger of the "revolutionary communistic idea," he offered Spain as a mediator. Gomez Jordana also said: "The Holy See, which labors with such love for the welfare of humanity, and those nations the war has spared, will be able without doubt to facilitate the advent of peace and collaborate in the preparation of treaties...