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Nevertheless, insofar as such an action does not interfere with our own way of life, we heartily ratify the action of our Government in joining hands with a state, no matter what color its banner, if such a union will further our aim of beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American-Protestant, Catholic, etc.-who is unwilling to welcome any type government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars...
Russia's Red Banner armies, driving into Manchuria, strengthened Russia's hand, and weakened China's, in the coming game for Asia. President Truman, welcoming the blow, preferred to think later of the later game. He concentrated on Tokyo...
...operations room, the President sat at the King's right, Secretary Byrnes at the left. At leave-taking the band played again. Said Harry Truman to the King: "Your Majesty, I want to get that man to teach our bands how to play The Star-Spangled Banner." (European bands usually play the U.S. national anthem slower and with more feeling than U.S. bands...
Howey, who rang the bell with his Iroquois Theater fire scoop (1903) and turned Chicago newspaperdom on its ear by his banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement...
Five weeks before Dday, ABSIE (the American Broadcasting Station in Europe) made its debut to the opening bars of Yankee Doodle. Last week, to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, it took its leave. ABSIE, operated by OWI and SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division, had earned an honorable discharge for valiant service, but few Americans had paid it more than passing notice...