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...herself for any length of time. But with the Swedish navy of light cruisers, destroyers and 50-knot-an-hour motor torpedo boats to harass the enemy, Thörnell could risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway spilling over quickly to his assistance. Gallup polls have shown repeatedly that the majority of Swedes believe they can avoid war. But they have completely organized against air raids and incendiary bombs. Their Lotta Corps, copied from Finland's modern women's auxiliary military corps, is ready...
...Regarding churchgoing, a prewar Gallup Poll reported that about 25% said they attended church. Mass-Observation's findings put the number at about...
...spite of the tremendous ground swell of public opinion which is evidently behind the idea of an effective Pay-as-you-earn plan, the Gallup Poll reporting from 81 to 87 per cent in the various categories polled in favor of it, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee has seen fit to maneuver the whole question back into his committee with the intention of killing it or at least holding it up for the rest of this year. He is "gloriously satisfied." But those Americans who are faced with the ever-recurring problem of paying last year...
Fourteen months ago, just before U.S. clocks went on War Time to speed arms production, a Gallup poll found 57% of the public in favor of a change from Standard Time, 30% opposed, 13% with no opinion. Last week another Gallup poll showed 44% still in favor of War Time, 42% opposed, 14% with no opinion...
...Eden? In the past year's Gallup polls in Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...