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...Davis report will eventually be used as Exhibit A in labor's case against Little Steel. Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper, campaigning for a 65?-an-hour basic minimum wage, was certain that the Davis report "definitely calls for revision in ... Little Steel." At that point, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson rushed to hold the crumbling line once again. To him, the Davis figures proved beyond a doubt that the Administration has done "a good job" in stabilizing living costs. Said he: "We cannot afford to relax...
With startling frankness, the official British Information Services underscored a basic fact of power politics-the symbiotic interdependence of the U.S. and Britain. Said B.I.S.: Britain is three things to the U.S.: 1) a customer; 2) a base for military operations against Europe; 3) a powerful military ally...
...Welcoming the delegates to Rye, Robert Gaylord, N.A.M. president, said, ". . . The manufacturers of the U.S. recognize these basic principles...
General Stilwell's recall clumsily terminated an embarrassing episode - but not the basic situation from which it resulted...
...guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in North China. . . . The Generalissimo regards these armies as the chief threat to his supremacy . . . has made no sincere attempt to arrange at least a truce with them for the duration of the war. ... No diplomatic genius could have overcome the Generalissimo's basic unwillingness to risk his armies in battle with the Japanese...