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...from its birth FEA's history has been one of dictation, though necessarily so because of its war function. It has dictated to private traders when & where they may ship their goods; it buys and stockpiles the millions of tons of strategic raw materials needed by the United Nations. This has given rise to some fears among private traders that FEA will not hurriedly cease its dictation. On this, the President wrote : "The Government should assist to the extent necessary to achieve this objective by returning commerce to private lanes as rapidly as possible." This indefinite promise alone stands...
...YOUR OTHERWISE HANDSOME WORDS ON ME, YOU INDIRECTLY QUOTED ME AS COMMENTING THAT A DIRECTOR'S CHIEF FUNCTION IS TO STAY ON THE SET TO SEE THAT THE ACTORS DON'T GO HOME TOO EARLY (TIME, SEPT. 18). I DID MAKE THIS STATEMENT REGARDING ONE DIRECTOR IN PARTICULAR, BUT ITS USE IN YOUR STORY AS A GENERALITY HAS CAUSED ME MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AND DISCOMFORT. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PUBLISH THIS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS DISPARAGEMENT APPLIED ONLY TO ONE MAN, WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS I WILL SUPPLY AT THE DROP...
...Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco guerrilleros behind Franco's lines. He was next heard of in France, working in the section of the underground whose function was to dispatch men from all over Europe and the U.S. to fight in Spain. He did not reappear again until the fascism he had fought in Franco Spain had overrun Yugoslavia in the form of Naziism...
Maxim Gorki had a singing phrase to describe the function of the writer-"the engineer of the human soul." During the Russian war this has certainly been true. Never before have Russian writers had such an audience. Never before have they had such immediate influence and such great responsibility. Perhaps J. B. Priestley exaggerated when he said that recent Russian writings had been "the conscience of the world," but they have unquestionably been the conscience of Russia...
With play sea-sawing back and forth, the first half was fairly even, ending in a 0 to 0 deadlock. But in the second half, the Crimson offensive began to function more smoothly...