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...Game Shift. The President's bold seizure stopped a strike, but did not solve the unrest of the railworkers. Fifteen of the rail unions that gave in (TIME, Jan. 3) were still as angry as the three that held out. Aggressive George M. Harrison of the Railway Clerks, an ardent Rooseveltian for ten years, was not muttering about revenge at the polls. The 15 non-operating unions (with 1,100,000 members) issued a joint blast at their treatment...
Invasion was coming. The Allied chiefs had been picked. The London press reported millions of U.S. soldiers pouring into Britain ("straphanging across the Atlantic," one newspaper called it). The fact that British railways were busy with a "gigantic" shift of men and supplies was public property...
...soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...
...flock of resignations from OWI's London staff signaled a shift in emphasis from civilian propaganda to military information (i.e., no information...
...Cairo conference is interpreted in the Southeast Asia headquarters as a definite turning point; the war against Japan will shift from a limited holding offensive to an Allied drive for victory. Grand-scale action will not follow immediately, but from here on the war against Japan has a good chance of being a coordinated, well-timed effort reaching the scale of a first-class offensive some time...