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...Cook Too Few. Despite the multifarious agencies fumbling with this crucial matter, one segment of the war administration was not involved in the North African plans-and should have been. That was Joe Weiner's Civilian Supply division in WPB (and the officials concerned with similar problems in Leon Henderson...
Closing upon Casablanca and its airdromes, the U.S. forces were fighting for Vichy's second-best Atlantic naval anchorage (the best: Dakar), a sizable segment of Vichy's Navy, Vichy Africa's principal Atlantic railhead and a modern city (pop. 257,000) which was the pride of colonial France. After the capture of the three key cities-Casablanca, Oran and Algiers-the rest of French North Africa might well be the Allies' for the taking...
...longer a battle for that place alone. The Russians, widening their counter-attacks above and below the site where Stalin's city once stood, now saw the struggle on the Volga "as the center of gravity of the summer campaign." Stalingrad, they said, was no longer a separate segment of the Volga line, but a part of "general combat" from Leningrad to the Caucasus...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...
...Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world of the immemorially poor, "stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like...