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Admittedly most of the criticisms had come from conservative elements, which are most vocal. But Banker Burgess wanted to be constructive. Forthwith he set an A.B.A. committee to the task of restudying and possibly drafting simplified or alternative ideas to the Bretton Woods proposals...
...tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
None of these shifts ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when...
...Army ruled last week that Franklin Roosevelt's Bremerton speech (TIME, Aug. 21), was a political address, and forthwith granted a Socialist Party request for equal radio time to speak to the soldiers overseas. Six hours later the War Department reversed the decision, in a statement that sounded as if heads had rolled all over the Pentagon Building. On thinking it over, the Department now held that the President's broadcast was a "nonpolitical report...
...troops were on the verge of rioting when a Jap Zero came down to strafe them. Windadge made a quick draw with his bazooka, fired, made a direct hit on the Zero and stultified it. The rioting troops subsided forthwith, for that was shooting even in the Schoutens...