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...future of our 450,000,000 people and conscious of standing at the bar of history, would wish to plunge the country into a civil war. The Government has shown its readiness and is always ready to confer with the Communists to bring about a real and lasting settlement with them...
...direct vote on the issue. By & large, the press was heavily anti-Wallace; the 150,000 letters and telegrams that flooded Washington (largely from C.I.O.-P.A.C. sources) were heavily pro-Wallace. But it was the elected representatives of the people, in the U.S. Senate, who forced a settlement -after two days of extraordinary backstage dickering...
...decision is not reversed or Congress does not take appropriate action to make the War Labor Board's orders of settlement effective on everybody, the whole plan of peaceful settlement of wartime labor disputes will collapse...
...believe this Government should . . . assure our Allies . . . that we intend to share in the direction of and the responsibility for the settlement of this war and the maintenance of peace...
...measure of its speed, the Russian victory seemed easy. It had not been. East Prussians fought with Teutonic fury. There, if anywhere, the Germans had girded well for a last-ditch battle. Every settlement was a little fortress, every house a gun post. The Germans threw in everything: crack troops, Volksstürmer, trainees, inhabitants of towns, the largest number of buzz bombs yet rocketed against the Russians...