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...Internationalist John Foster Dulles said last week in Cleveland (see Foreign Relations), that the U.S. people still do not quite know what they mean when they say that they are ready to lug a full load in world affairs. But every visible indication of U.S. opinion shows not only that they do say so, but that in recent weeks they have found a specific, all-important point of agreement in their ways of saying so. They have increasingly agreed that the use of power in "power politics" is 1) necessary, and 2) not inevitably bad. Some of the indications...
...Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle, who continued combat flying even after he got his star, was piloting a Flying Fortress on a mission over Belgium when seven Messerschmitts attacked. Bullets ignited an oxygen tank, which threatened to explode the Fortress' bomb load. Lean, young (36) General Castle refused to jettison the load, because U.S. troops were underneath. With two engines afire, he leveled out, and stayed at the controls while his crew bailed out. He was still in the plane when a fuel tank exploded, sent plane and pilot to the ground in flames...
Strip Tease. In Red Bank, N.J., a busload of soldiers heard a female voice ask the driver, "Will you wait a minute, please, while I get my clothes on?", twisted their necks out of joint, saw a laundress lift aboard a load of linen...
...Reston reported that Canada had already prepared recommendations to alter the Dumbarton Oaks formula. As that formula now stands, all peace-loving nations outside the Big Five are equally eligible for places on the Security Council. But in any future war Canada would obviously have to carry a heavier load than a nation like Panama. The Canadians, wrote Reston, were asking that representation on the Security Council, other than the Big Five, be restricted to countries with the will and power to put forces at the Council's disposal. In Ottawa an official spokesman called Reporter Reston...
...every man in Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...