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Said the liberal New Statesman and Na tion: "Moscow is not impressed by the expedition to Spitsbergen (see p. 20). . . . We have command of the sea; have we not the troops available even for 'beard-singeing' operations? Are there no bases worth denying to the enemy? Uneasiness is inevitable in view of the record of the War Office...
...perfectionist in grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English that creeps into most Far Eastern English-language papers.) Moreover, he intends to run his paper as long as he lives and will it to his second-in-command, F. Theo. Rogers, and to his staff. He doesn't think that either war with Japan or Philippines independence in 1946 will interfere with that plan...
...minutes he sweated, pleaded, cajoled, appealing to them in his own name and President Roosevelt's. The students cheered, hissed, chanted, stamped, booed. Muñoz Marin finally gave up and let the students fight it out themselves. Those who wanted Tugwell whole or not at all took command. Four hours later a verdict was reached: let Tugwell resign either the Governorship or the chancellorship...
...Dissension between Admiral Darlan and Vichy's North African High Commander, General Maxime Weygand, has often been rumored (TIME, Aug. 25). Into General Weygand's sphere last week Vichy moved three officers whose fealty to Vichy seemed unquestioned. Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy...
...hairy ears of the cannoneers of the Panama Coast Artillery Command are due to burn this week. Into them will be poured (Thursday, 8:30 to 9 p.m. E.D.S.T.) a booming salute from NBC. From Manhattan they will be greeted by their old commander, Major General Sanderford Jarman, by NBC President Niles Trammell, by Gertrude Lawrence, many another. Then from their own tiny stations, PCAN and PCAC, in the Canal Zone, their new topkick, Major General William E. Shedd, and Brigadier General Glen E. Edgerton, Governor of the Zone, will make reply...