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...Senators were sympathetic, they asked only questions that gave George Marshall a chance to beef up his arguments. He conceded that victory might have come sooner if there had been a unified department "in the period when we were struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle...
...control. Said the Russian: every effort was being made, and anyway, railroads were not his business, while food was. Said the Frenchman: France would start meat deliveries soon, but not to Berlin. The Russian sniffed. The American recalled that U.S. authorities had already delivered 9,000 tons of dressed beef to the Russians at the Bavarian frontier. The Russian sniffed again. The matter was not settled...
...committee faced facts. Many a Laborite M.P.-and some Tories, too-must live on a parliamentary salary of $2,400 a year, cannot afford to eat on the premises. Last week the committee set up a poor man's canteen. It featured a hot meal (soup, lamb or beef with potatoes, cabbage, apple pie) for 30?; tipping was banned. At that rate no member of the "world's best club" would have to bring his own lunch...
...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...
Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...