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...chiefs of the U. S. fighting forces. Colonels Stimson and Knox. By the time he had shuttled back & forth between Manhattan and Washington several times and hidden out to write a radio speech, Colonel Donovan's trail was cold. But when finally his story did leak out, as stories always do in Washington, it was still hot. For Wild Bill Donovan was one man in the U. S. who was satisfied he knew how the war was being fought and what the U. S. ought to do to help...
France announced that her Navy would convoy food from abroad to the ports of unoccupied France, a move which will either put a leak in the British blockade or bring the French and British Navies into conflict again. In Paris Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan closed a deal under which Germany will help to run French industry (i.e., direct it). From Morocco General Maxime Weygand rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire...
Least edifying sight of Washington's muggy summer of 1940 was the skedaddling, ten-thumbed carpentry of Congress in slapping together the Excess Profits Tax (TIME, Oct. 14)-a jerry-built construction job which everyone knew would show many a chink, leak and missing windowpane when the March 15 wind started blowing. Working too fast, Congress wound up with a 50-page tax bill which not even the experts understood. The Congressmen themselves were reduced to giggling over it like schoolboys unable to hide any longer the fact that they did not know their lesson...
Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...
Last week Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton referred to this situation in oblique understatement: he told U. S. newsmen he was "embarrassed" by a leak in his blockade at Vladivostok. Presumably he was much more than embarrassed. According to the New York Times, Dalton's ministry believed that Germany's textile position had been critical, feared now that cotton shipments from Russia soon would have it out of danger. Washington's balancing act between aid to Britain and economic overtures to Russia (TIME, Jan. 6) had produced a new dilemma...