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Background of Policy. Marshall was studying the German problem when the message came that Britain would be obliged to withdraw her support of Greece after March 31. He abandoned the German problem forthwith and turned his attention to the Mediterranean. He conferred for many anxious hours with Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower...
...Aero (Aviation Officers') Club, a massive grey building which underwent refurbishing operations up to zero hour; workers put in carpets, telephones, new toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians still remember the ditty...
...usually gets what he wants, was bent on taking a hard, realistic look at the rates and routes awarded by CAB in the past. He did not think that subsidies should be boosted to make up for CAB's mistakes in granting routes in the first place. Forthwith, Landis ordered an investigation on whether Chicago and Southern's as yet un-flown routes beyond Havana (to San Juan and Caracas) should not be suspended...
Tired of such talk, National Defense Minister Brooke Claxton made a public answer: "All the discussion and veiled charges about what is going on [at Churchill] have no foundation in fact." To prove it, he forthwith invited the Ottawa military attaches of ten foreign countries, including Russia, to go to Churchill, Man., to see for themselves...
...Forthwith, Russ Jack, Adeline Bowman (Bill's secretary, whose $39,356 salary and bonuses made headlines in 1942), four other associates resigned. To quiet other restive associates, Ralph Heintz addressed them: "We might as well face the truth. . . . Now we are in a competitive market. For the first time, we have got to think of the stockholders...