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Said President Roosevelt, explaining the shift: "We are, I hope, approaching the (period when these [occupied] governments must look forward to the re-establishment of their countries. I think it is wise for us to take up the military side of the restoration problems." The President made it plain that the "military side" (presumably cooperation with the underground, etc.) would henceforth be dominant. Other problems will be handled not by a new Ambassador-Minister, but only by charges d'affaires. Diplomats in London generally cheered. They agreed that the Allied Army's diplomatic record (in North Africa...
That such an organization should be completely organized before the war is over might startle some Americans. But in Canada the shift from war production to peacetime manufacture is already methodically beginning...
...about 18 months the Army, Navy and other war procurement agencies have quick-fingered a hot potato that never grew cool. The problem: How could U.S. war contracts be ended uniformly and quickly so that the industrial plant could speedily shift from one war product to another and reconvert without waste motion...
...Miami's Tropical Park on New Year's Day morning 10,900 racegoers-tourists, servicemen and shipyard workers on their way home from the night shift-shoved $453,103 at the clerks behind the pari-mutuel windows-twice as much as they bet last New Year's Day. Many of them drove their cars to the track, though the gasoline shortage in Florida is so acute that big trucks operated by the Overseas Transportation Co. to carry food to isolated Key West are unable to get enough gas to keep to their schedules. That afternoon...
...shift that surprised London military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point...