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...I.R.A. circulated a manifesto: "If in event of the resumption of hostilities between Britain and the Irish Republic, American troops are drawn into the conflict with Irish guerrilla forces, the responsibility must rest with those who presumed to use northeast Ireland as a military base without the free consent of the Irish people...
...first the President had to devise his plan and if possible win labor's consent. So last week the two top men of U.S. labor -A.F. of L.'s William Green and C.I.O.'s Philip Murray-trotted into the White House. When they emerged, it was clear that they were still opposed to wage control at any price. But Franklin Roosevelt went ahead with his plans...
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According to this record, Russia was promised a second front for 1942. On this same record, Churchill and Roosevelt did not make the promise in a burst of unmilitary optimism. They made it with the advice and consent of their military advisers, men who must then have been aware of the facts which were still being cited last week to prove that a second front in 1942 will certainly be difficult, that it may fail, and that it may even be impossible...
...great careers in the Red Army: he was successively a local, regional and national official of the Party; the while he attended Red Army schools, commanded Red troops in the field. His associates, superiors and teachers were often the generals whom Stalin purged, with the active or passive consent of Timoshenko and the others who survived and rose in the aftermath. The western world has never made up its mind about the purges. It may be that, as Moscow said, traitors to the U.S.S.R. dominated the Red Army, that the first battles of the war with Hitler were...