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...Shock of Reality. The U.S. was shocked. It should not have been. Power politics still dominated Europe, and the past masters of power politics were the masters of the Kremlin. Ever since Winston Churchill's last visit to Russia (TIME, Oct. 16 et seq.), there had been little doubt that, for a free hand in the Mediterranean, he had been forced to grant Russia a free hand in Poland and the upper Balkans...
...Mare Island mutineers heard their sentences last week. The 50 Negro sailors who refused to load explosives on a Pacific-bound munitions ship (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq) were reduced to the lowest rank (apprentice seaman), given stiff prison terms. Ten of them got 15 years. Because of "youth, previous clear records and short periods of service," 24 of them got modified terms of twelve years; eleven got ten years; five got eight years...
...decision was promptly hailed by Attorney General Francis Biddle as justifying his course in the Montgomery Ward case (TIME, May 8 et seq.). For the time being, in any case, it would prevent Montgomery Ward from having the law on the President...
Commonwealth & Empire. The Dominion Premiers stood "in firm array" after their recent conference (TIME, May 1 et seq.). Said Churchill: "We have advanced from vague generalities to more precise points of agreement, and we are in a position to carry on discussions with other countries within limits which we have imposed upon ourselves...
...escape. Even when Herriman propagandized ... he was unique and wholly captivating: the introduction into his strip of a lonesome dogie who complained of "Old Sir Taxy-Waxy" and all he did to him at the time Hearst so loudly complained of taxation in California (Aug. 8, 1936 et seq...