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...Three" had survived Franklin Roosevelt. Never again would the phrase denote three men, communing on the peaks of power. Now it meant only three powers, in troubled but still unbroken alliance. This week the Big Three: ¶ Declared their common intent to pursue and bring to punishment the perpetrators of Nazi horrors (see FOREIGN NEWS...
What Next? Molotov's note was neither a declaration of war nor, necessarily, of intent to go to war. Legally, the treaty still had a year to run after the notice of cancellation. But the Foreign Commissar's tone suggested that this technicality might be brushed aside at Russia's convenience...
First of the Allies to declare war, Britain is intent on being first to turn back its industry to peace. Its vast, humming workshops have multiplied manyfold since 1940, when, in all England, there was but one drop hammer-a prewar, German-made model-capable of forging the life-&-death Spitfire crankshafts. (The man in charge of operating that precious hammer, 49-year-old William Forster, received the British Empire Medal in 1943; but only last week, when the story was told in Parliament, did Britons find out why.) Already, those desperate days seemed far away...
...should be further said that these transactions have been abnormal both in size and character, that they were entered into with the purpose of defeating a powerful and ruthless enemy intent upon the destruction of your liberty and ours, that wars always come to an end, and that when this one finally [ends] it will open to all of us an untrod and unknown road on which we must travel in converting from a war economy to a peace economy." On this road, said he, the U.S. in self-interest will do its utmost to cushion the shock of Latin...
...truth about the Byrnes order was that it was mostly psychological, in orgin and intent. Last October Assistant President Byrnes went to Europe and got religion about the war. The curfew was a Byrnes attempt to operate the U.S. conscience...