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...assembly, the first session of the French Provisional Consultative Assembly will be called to order in Algiers. Seated in semicircular rows ringing the rostrum, 84 men will represent France according to democratic parliamentary procedure, at least 40 of them representatives of the highly organized French underground itself. They will reflect all political hues, from Conservatives to Communists. They will speak for a renascent France...
...Moscow conferences, Molotov will make no move without Stalin's consent. But Stalin's mind, to a degree unsuspected abroad, will reflect Viacheslav Molotov's advice...
...week the R.A.F.'s fast, light Mosquitoes gave Berlin its 80th bombing, but between Sept. 8 and Sept. 19 no heavy bombers went into Germany. Airmen attached no particular significance to this circumstance; they have had such lulls before, will have them again. But they were bound to reflect that their principal operations from Britain last week were "supporting operations"-Fortress attacks on the Germans' Atlantic port of Nantes, on the submarine base at La Pallice, on factories near Paris which supply engines to the Luftwaffe on all fronts; R.A.F. night attacks on the great Dunlop tire factory...
...Cover) Postwar planners for whom only the sky is the limit serve a great purpose. They point to the truth that Peace on this planet is indivisible. They reflect the foresight-and the insight-that some day (100 or 1,000 years from now) the human race is likely to order its affairs as one big family, happy or quarrelsome...
...probably using infrared rays) that would enable soldiers to see objects at night but be invisible to the enemy; an improved means of signaling the identity of ground troops to friendly planes and vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem to soldiers .working around motorized equipment and plane hangars); new methods of sabotage...