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Politically, the speech was one of the Prime Minister's most astute maneuvers. It solidified Tory support behind him, and it may well split Liberals and Labor. Before the speech there had been many signs that Britain was swinging leftward. If this trend was really fundamental, no one speech-however great-could permanently halt it. But, after the speech, Winston Churchill's domestic intentions were clear: he proposed to drive the Tory chariot right through the war to a straight coalition, khaki-elected, postwar government, dragging Liberal and Labor defectives willy-nilly. Whether, now 68, he hoped...
Field Marshal Smuts is Prime Minister of a country split into sharp oppositions: pro-war and antiwar, pro-British and anti-British, 8,000,000 underprivileged natives and 2,000,000 privileged whites. Well aware was Jan Smuts that his few fair-minded concessions to South Africa's colored majority could and would be used to make votes against his Government. Last week he gravely admitted: "As Commander in Chief I have been disgraced by some of my soldiers. This is a matter of first-class importance to the country. I will not allow such things to happen again...
...success of Will Calloway Grant, 36, of Chicago, is the current sensation of the U.S. advertising business. Few weeks ago one rival ad salesman grew so envious that he started a rumor that Grant Advertising Inc. owed its vertical rise in gross billings to such dubious practices as taking split-commission contracts.* Grant's answer was typical-and, as usual, irritating to the rest of the secretive advertising world: last week an auditor was going over his books right back to the day when he got his first account. Grant then blandly-and publicly-suggested that the entire industry...
...Soldiers Field layout will handle with case the load that the Indoor Athletic Building "split at the seams" under, the conditioning director believes. Last winter, he said, the Indoor Athletic Building was jammed with eight to nine thousand men a week, including service men, using its facilities...
...Split on Russia...