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...report had General Giraud stopping in Martinique before his arrival in America. The pro-Vichy master of the French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...
...reason was that the Congress was sick to its innards of the Administration technique of give-us-billions-and-we'll fix-everything-up. The members felt: 1) that no conceivable number of billions could really roll back prices ; 2 ) what was needed was management, not money. The British subsidy success they understood; Britain imports 35% of its food, and controls can easily be applied from the docks to the stores. The job is as nothing compared to payments to 6,000,000 U.S. farmers...
After the guns ceased firing, combat troops turned out to help the Ordnancemen sort and pile the spoils. Usable equipment was repaired and cleaned up in the Ordnance depots, which can fix anything from a field gun to a cookstove. But not all captured materiel was usable. Much of it was just plain junk...
...Army, lookee here; we had a nice juicy gripe which we've been nursing for five months and were all steamed up about it this week, but it looks like moves are being made to fix things. Of course its you melodious and spirited Stat, Corps boys who are the butt this gripe...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...