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...ultimately agreed to take orders only from Darlan, who by lucky chance was in Algiers at the time, visiting his paralyzed son. It was not Ike's doing that De Gaulle in London wasn't even told of the North African invasion. The British blamed a leak in De Gaulle's staff for their earlier failure to capture Dakar. Ike is still cool toward De Gaulle, who, as Ike tells it, was more of a hindrance than a help to the Allied effort...
...Paris, Secretary of State George C. Marshall implied that such reports as Coffin's merely played into the hands of Soviet propagandists. The trouble with the tip-like all such tips out of Washington-was that readers could not tell whether it was irresponsible reporting or an irresponsible leak from an administration official. Coffin insisted that he had another call from a "close friend of the President" who had tipped him off, saying: "Don't give up. Your story may come true...
...rate of energy-release, said Commissioner Strauss, could not be controlled, but would decrease steadily according to the "half-life" of the radioactive material. But such a "storage battery" might have one big advantage. It would not give off, necessarily, the dangerous neutrons and penetrating gamma rays which leak from atomic piles. Some active isotopes emit only radiations that can be stopped by comparatively thin shielding. There might be no deadly byproducts, either, to endanger the neighborhood...
...warning last week. Dr. Samuel Gelfan of the Yale University School of Medicine explained that the pressurized cabin, which has solved many of the problems of high-altitude flying, has in turn created a new and equally tough problem: explosive decompression. The trouble can be caused either by a leak in the tightly sealed cabin or by a sudden failure of the pressurizing equipment...
From the moment when U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...