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...escort ships, new aircraft carriers (see p. 65), new defensive techniques, new arms and devices, a new command system were among the Allied answers. But even the most optimistic Allied claims did not predict a turn of the tide before midsummer; other estimates were that the ebb would be later than that...
Back cracked Senator Tom Stewart, Democrat of Tennessee: "I predict that the words uttered by the little Governor, self-admitted Presidential timber, will live to haunt him. ... It is indeed unfortunate the young man should net have a national viewpoint instead of the narrow and provincial...
...unnoticed. But from the country came congratulatory telegrams (from a tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...
Inside, the chunky Caudillo spoke mostly in the flowery phrases of Fascist mumbo jumbo. But he did predict that the war would last another six or seven years. And, with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare and U.S. Ambassador Carlton Hayes sitting there listening, the Caudillo suggested that all the belligerents might yet get together and fight Russia. Said Franco: "The presence of Russia on one of the sides gives the struggle in Europe the character of a war to death. Many are the surprises that a long war might yet present...
...sundry spiritualists will have to register so the Department may distinguish "dangerous forms of occultism with international connections" from those which may "be useful." In plain language, mediums who do not see Nazi victory in the air will henceforth work for Nazi victory in munitions factories, and those who predict victory will do business with official blessing...