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...Still strike-shut were the vast Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. yards at Kearny, N.J. (TIME, Aug. 18). Blame for the tie-up was placed squarely on management by the National Defense Mediation Board when Federal rejected the Board's recommendation for a settlement. From the Administration came an ultimatum: accept the Board's finding or else-the Navy would step in, become boss...
...darling of the Army extremists, the old Baron was one of the first Japanese of high position to be labeled "Fascist." But during the last several years his views mellowed to the archconservatism of an elder statesman. He believes in friendship with the U.S. and Britain, favors a quick settlement of the four-year-old Sino-Japanese War, opposes a single totalitarian party, has balked against Axis alliances. So considerable is his influence on Prince Konoye that he has become known as the "Strong Man of the Cabinet...
...outlook, too, Mr. van Mook is American. He has strong convictions on the part the U.S. must play in the ultimate Pacific settlement. He believes in broadening the base of government, eventually to admit the natives to suffrage. Says he of the world of the future, raising a finger at the colonial conservatives who had so heartily disapproved of him during his political period...
Because World War I cost Charlotte's elder sister, Marie Adelaide, her throne (for alleged disloyalty), because the Grand Duchy's independence was almost bartered away in the peace settlement, George Waller decided that everything that happened to the Grand Duchy during World War II should be witnessed by disinterested observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin...
...Jews-"There . . . can be no other 'settlement' for the future than that the Jewish German is and always will be a German, just as the Bavarian German, or the Rhineland or the Pomeranian German...