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...agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...
Lustig's counsel, Lloyd Paul Stryker, admitted to the jury that his client had been "delinquent." Nevertheless, he had a defense: Lustig, said he, had voluntarily confessed his delinquency, had paid the Treasury $1,800,000 as a compromise settlement. In return he had been promised immunity from criminal prosecution. But, said Stryker, "high Government officials cheated and deceived Henry Lustig!" What officials? Why, "the boss" was Henry Morgenthau Jr., Treasury Secretary when the Lustig investigation began. Before the trial ends, some weeks hence, Stryker promised to call Morgenthau as a witness...
...strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled first...
...even rarer in diplomacy than in baseball-an unassisted triple play. He confirmed the world's growing belief that a strong, positive U.S. line is the best guarantee against a new war. He offered a specific solution for the German problem-the indispensable prelude to any real European settlement. Best of all, he forced a showdown on Soviet policy. Fear of German revival has been Russia's excuse for her expansionist policies in Europe. If Russia now refuses the Byrnes offer of joint big-power assistance in guaranteeing her security against such a reincarnation, she will have...
...start May 1 in Paris, can actually meet, the Big Four must agree to a great deal more. On Italy, their first treaty, they face such moot points as Trieste, Tripolitania and the Dodecanese. This week they put the "whole German problem" on their agenda -and no final European settlement was conceivable until Germany's neighbors knew what would happen to her. Molotov wanted to put off consideration of the draft U.S. treaty for Austria, where Jimmy Byrnes wants to get Allied troops (about 75% of them Russian) out of the country. The Balkans were sure to provide fireworks...