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More important, to many Navymen's thinking (including CINCPAC Admiral Chester Nimitz), is the type of ships the subs specialize in sinking: Japan's hard-pressed tankers. It may have been U.S. submarines, not U.S. battleships or carriers, that forced the Japs to pull a big segment of their fleet out of Truk-because a shortage of tankers may have prevented adequate deliveries...
Despite these moves and decisions, the nation's capital still had a hollow feeling. This came from the belief that U.S.-Soviet relations had reached a point of new delicacy. Shaken by the rough-&-tumble diplomatic maneuvers of the Soviet Union, the Administration was worried lest a considerable segment of the U.S. might come to feel that the U.S. was fighting merely to make Europe safe for Russia. Such a feeling might be disastrous in an election year...
...time, the dictator may compel the rich to disgorge enough in taxes to keep a stream of job-creating money flowing into public works. But the continued use of tax money to subsidize one segment of society, such as the unemployed or the workers, inflames those who have to pay the steadily mounting bill. At some point along the line the dictator must find an excuse to make the tax-and-subsidize economy palatable to everybody. This is done by discovering an outside enemy, which justifies the final splurge in military public works...
Bevin's big, powerful Transport and General Workers Union once again condemned Morrison's release of Sir Oswald. Other unions were equally restive. British unions are an important segment of the Labor Party; withdrawal of their support of Morrison would divide the Party, might wreck it if Morrison continued as a Party leader...
Local gendarmerie and fire-fighting forces joined in the exercises, cheered on by the livelier segment of the Adams House population. Tiffin a la Tondelayo was served and all guests departed at 11, assuring their hosts that they had had a simply delightful time...