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...note in TIME [Nov. 27] an article which refers to the Gopher Ordnance Plant. We quote the following paragraph...
...White House announcement, published only three months after Stilwell had been made the Army's sixth four-star general,* was a crisp, close-mouthed paragraph. It gave no explanation of General Stilwell's unceremonious removal from his glamorous list of jobs as 1) Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; 2) Deputy to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southeast Asia; 3) U.S. Commander of the China-Burma-India theater...
Sample: Dewey had cited a paragraph in an official report by the President's uncle, Frederic Delano, which favored keeping the boys in the Army, as an example of the Washington thinking that led to General Lewis Hershey's unfortunate remark that "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." In fact, the full text of "Uncle Freddie's" report ended up by recommending speedy demobilization. But while the Democrats were getting to their feet to shout "I object," Prosecutor Dewey was attacking...
Chance in the Middle. But the local staff was weak. Page One was dull; the editorial page was stodgy. The first Knight ukase on the bulletin board: "Short leads and short sentences. No lead [opening paragraph] is to be more than three typewritten lines, two if possible." Chicago would get frequent samples of Knight's own "personal journalism": punchy editorials in short, snappy sentences. Knight writes a weekly "Publisher's Notebook" for all his papers...
...week to stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...