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Just who was about to commit the blunder of "island-hopping," the General did not say. Island-hopping has been denounced by all. So far the U.S. has been unable to assemble enough strength in the Pacific to do anything else. But developments had apparently convinced MacArthur that when forces for "massive strokes" were assembled they would be entrusted to someone else. He was to be overshadowed, overlapped, inadequately supplied and relegated to a pipsqueak holding campaign...
...Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
This shrewd advice helped get headlines, sure enough. Whether it, or the hearings, would get Gene Cox anywhere, remained to be seen. Already there were signs to the contrary. The New York Herald Tribune condemned the Commit tee's tactics and how-nowed Congress for permitting "backstairs propaganda." Lawrence Fly still...
Russia shrewdly did not entirely commit itself. The way was left open for official recognition, semiofficial sponsorship, or even repudiation of the German Committee. Reactions in Washington and London undoubtedly would guide Russia's eventual attitude...
...liberty to dispute these aspersions with concrete facts. But reports came that the widely discounted Bermuda conference may have been more than a junketing seminar after all. Readying for release, perhaps this week, was a joint U.S.-British announcement of plans agreed on. The Intergovernmental Refugee Commit tee, established in 1938 as an unpaid advisory body, was to be buttressed with funds and a paid chairman and secretary, given the job of finding land, housing, shipping, food, medicines and other supplies needed to resettle some of the 20,000 refugees in Spain, the 100,000 in the Balkans. Some...