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...irritation, Lord Beaverbrook.* At this point, Churchill must have bristled. Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, is many things to the Prime Minister-a friend with a flair and dash otherwise lacking in the men around Churchill; a tough, nationalistic figure who usefully personifies Britain's instinctive, rising desire to depend first on herself and her Dominions (see p. 33) in a world where "the United Nations" are none too united. (Again the knowing Economist spieled a commentary: "Lord Beaverbrook is a believer in strong diplomacy and splendid isolation . . . Mr. Eden a convinced advocate of negotiated diplomacy...
Amid this general confusion of charge and countercharge, Governor Dewey was by now pretty well lost from sight. That cool politician's case seemed to depend on what he meant by "political news." But however technically correct Secretary Hull may have been in his denial, the affair had certainly not lessened the ten sion between him and the U.S. press. Said one Washington correspondent...
...Germany will be neither powerless nor unimportant. Says Dr. Notestein: "Germans will continue to form the largest ethnic group west of the Slavs. On their continued productive efficiency will depend much of the economic welfare of Europe. It [must] be maintained. Otherwise, a train of poverty and disillusionment, spreading throughout the Continent, might soon bring a new political upheaval...
Washington: "Your security and economy depend . . . on the United Nations...
...Million a Week. The work is no picnic. The improved P-38s which Pop's boys fly are unarmed; guns and ammunition slow them up too much. Photo recon pilots have to depend on speed and cunning to escape...