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Last week Austria was still a shattered monument to the breakdown of Big Three cooperation. In Paris, Jimmy Byrnes, as a key point in the new U.S. positive policy, tried to begin redemption of the pledge. Curtly, Molotov told Byraes that Austria was not on the agenda and refused even to discuss putting it there...
...while until Captain Harold B. Ellis discovered which sailor was carrying the magnet around in his pocket and throwing the compass off. Just outside of Tripoli they steamed through a floating minefield under the impression that it was a gathering of turtles. Captain Ellis went ashore with a nervous breakdown, refused to come back...
Said Stelle: the Veterans Administration was inefficient, far behind in its work; thousands of veterans were suffering physical and financial hardships because of its maladministration. The record showed a "tragic breakdown. . . . Unwarranted delays. . . . What we need in charge of the VA is a seasoned businessman, not a soldier, however good a soldier...
After years of this, Manager Webster suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the quiet countryside, where he spent his few remaining years carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...