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...shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what we gain after the war will...
France's Man? Other towns and villages saw him. Then, after six hours in the homeland, Charles de Gaulle went back to Britain. He left behind, in one corner of France, a new Government. With no apparent objections from the Allied High Command, which had its own administrative setup, Algiers had appointed François Coulet and Colonel Pierre de Chevigné administrators of liberated Normandy. With these Gaullist officials, Charles de Gaulle left instructions for the restoration of the republican regime. More than ever, the General was sure that he was France...
...hearings before the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy, Army leaders plumped solidly for a thorough reorganization of the national military setup. The basic plan: merger of the War and Navy Departments into a single department of the armed forces...
...according to Josephson, simply got in on the ground floor. Its board of directors, as one awed official reported, "had a combined wealth of $850,000,000." Pan Am also had wide contacts in Washington, and the "seat-of-the-pants" flying knowledge of Juan Trippe. On this setup, Pan Am wangled its first contract to fly mail from Miami to Havana, for which it was paid $160,000 yearly. Overnight Juan Trippe became an adviser to the Post Office on expanding mail routes to South America...
...hope that the Edison market price would bounce up, A.L. & T. strategists looked around for a sound citizen to head the Edison setup. Their eye fell on tough, diplomatic Prentiss M. Brown, no stranger to Michigan public utilities. Before election to Congress in 1932, he spent seven years as counsel for northern Michigan's Edison Sault Electric...