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Vichy's guess was the week's most interesting. It was based in part on Herr Hitler's reply to the Pétain plan of French-German collaboration (see p. 28). Hitler was said to have demanded that France turn over Mediterranean ports to the Axis -suggesting a major campaign in that theatre. The French thought that after their own position had been clarified, the invasion would be attempted, perhaps late in February. Vichy guessers put forward a specific plan the Nazis might use: unassailable walls of mines guarding two broad, trans-Channel lanes, into which...
...Italian guess was bad. Greek morale took a new lease. Determinedly the Greeks said that action of Kelcyre had now "lost the character of a movement of purely local importance." Greek forces rallied and hit Italian counter attacks with counter-attacks of their...
...would be appointed in the old Justice's place? Best guess of Washington quidnuncs last week: South Carolina's fox-shrewd Senator James Francis Byrnes, a politician's politician as other men are poet's poets or engineer's engineers-mellow, human, but not profound. Among still good bets was Attorney General Robert Houghwout (pronounced How'-att) Jackson. Two days before Mr. Justice McReynolds resigned, Mr. Jackson published a timely book, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy (Knopf...
...Marshal took care to point out that his National Council is no permanent organization, that it will be replaced after the war, when France knows whether the Marshal has guessed right or wrong on the winner. Last week his guess seemed still to be Germany, in spite of the efforts of new U. S. Ambassador Admiral William Daniel Leahy to make him change his mind. France's future, immediate and ultimate, hung on the Marshal's guess...
What Balustrade was about, no one knew. Since there were no program notes, it made for good guessing as well as good watching. It seemed to have bugs, or birds, or airplanes in it, and it definitely had a shapely leopard. Safe guess: the spangly men in black (Roman Jasinsky, Paul Petroff) were up to no good with the woman in black (dark, pretty Tamara Toumanova...