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What could the conference accomplish now? Optimists hoped that perhaps at least provisional air routes, to be flown by private lines as soon as the war permits, could be mapped and allotted, and technical matters of standard controls for traffic worked out. But settlement of the big problems still waited on Russia...
...that an election might be called, that some Cabinet members had threatened to resign, that there would be a special session of Parliament. Said Toronto's Government-baiting Globe and Mail: "The [Army] manpower crisis . . . is moving rapidly to its climax. All the evidence is that this time settlement cannot be delayed. . . ." Not everything was rumor. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had called all 21 members of his Cabinet into special session. One member was summoned all the way from Vancouver...
...point the St. Roch broke out the blue ensign to signal a settlement of Aleuts. The Aleuts refused to answer until the St. Rock ran up the Stars & Stripes. They thought their visitor was a Jap ship...
...Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with...
...Settlement of respective Anglo-Russian "security" spheres in the Balkans...