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...battle of the Atlantic last week narrowed toward a showdown. The Allies announced a plan for a transatlantic air umbrella to protect convoys "over every mile of the route from North America to Europe." Germany spoke of a "totality of U-boat warfare, which means that German U-boat warfare is equivalent to German naval warfare as a whole...
...pressure inside & outside his Government has confounded him. Emigrés in London for months have printed anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist newspapers. The chauvinists' clamor, and that of an anti-Sikorski Polish press in the U.S., impelled Sikorski last Feb. 25 to demand a showdown with Stalin on the return of Poland's eastern provinces. From then on, relations between the two Governments have gone from bad to debacle...
...York negotiations to Washington. John Lewis stood fast: he wanted to crack the Little Steel wage formula with a $2-a-day raise for his men and to torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen for the battle...
...showdown, "Judge" Patterson is confident that he can prove the rubber program out of balance, that civilians are being "coddled" with the promise of tires at the expense of fighting men, that Jeffers has grabbed so many materials the rubber program can now be safely cut back...
...first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja and Medjez-el-Bab - and Arnim was frustrated until he could take those two key points...