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Clearing weather over Western Europe last week was the signal for renewed reconnaissance flights from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate. Allied soldiers restudied their pattern charts to be sure they remembered which planes to shoot at. But still both the Allies and Germany stayed their hands from grand-scale air warfare, for the same reasons that have ruled for 21 weeks: economy of men and planes, fear of reprisal, unpreparedness, weather. But a piece of air news came from London, about a German device...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...
Nobody quite succeeded in fixing the pattern. Nobody was surprised that President Roosevelt appointed Frank Murphy to succeed Pierce Butler on the Supreme Court; that Solicitor General Robert Jackson stepped up to the Attorney-Generalship (and maybe to a better starting position, said the Washington Post, for a run for the Vice-Presidency); that earnest, aristocratic Francis Biddle of Philadelphia stepped from the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Solicitor-Generalship (TIME, Jan. 8). Nor was there much surprise that five new, long-impending State Department appointments were carried through. Nominations poured from the White House to the Senate...
...Pattern. Adding up big names and big figures, Washington found all this more interesting than enlightening. Some said it was because an election was coming, as well as drafts on the Democratic war chest; some said the moves were like a shot in pocket pool, in which the eight ball smacked the six, the six hit the three and James Cromwell dropped into the corner pocket...
Session III, prophesied Washington wiseacres, would follow the same pattern, bumbling along for three months or so. then cramming everything into the last few days before the legislators board their trains for the June conventions...