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With that order, Gamelin, never able to get along with the politicians of the French Government, admitted failure, and a shake-up in the High Command became inevitable. Prime Minister Churchill (who named the fight then raging "The Battle of the Bulge") flew to Paris for a meeting of the Allied War Council. Premier Reynaud announced that the moment had come for "a change of men and methods." He called Marshall Pétain, hero of Verdun, to be his adviser, himself took charge of the Defense Ministry...
This spring the President, who had also justified expropriation on the ground that foreign owners did not give Mexican labor a straight shake, had to announce an "Economy Program" which meant firing one oil worker out of six. One reason for all these headaches to Lazaro Cardenas has been the efforts of expropriated U. S. and British oilmen to maintain a "united front" and refuse to market for the Mexican Government oil they considered stolen from them. Last week Oilman Harry F. Sinclair blithely deserted the united front to make an inside deal with the Cardenas Government...
...best crack: "Anyone with a clean shirt on can beat Guffey." Ex-Mayor McNair had no chance. Behind Walter Jones was David L. Lawrence, State Democratic chairman. Mr. Lawrence has been withdrawn from the political scene for four months, while undergoing two trials on charges of conspiracy to shake down State employes for slush funds, and political blackmail...
...good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME, April 8). He did just that...
...Greg Rice was an in conspicuous U. S. runner. But suddenly, within a fortnight he set new world's indoor records for two miles and three miles. Instead of an affair as one-sided as the Russian invasion of Finland, the Garden race looked like a square shake, particularly at Maki's favorite distance, three miles. Rice's style sports a fast sprint to the tape. Maki's formula is an almost imperceptible acceleration, pulling farther & farther away from his opponent un til he has an invulnerable lead. If Rice could dog Maki's heels...