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...midst of such a dreadful week as this, when the WLB wage-raising decision in the Little Steel case had started in motion many & many a new labor demand for higher wages, when the threat of inflation got more & more real by the moment, an unprecedented delegation paid a call on the President. "Historic" the President called it, for figuratively arm-in-arm came the famed heads of A.F. of L. and C.I.O. together with President Eric Johnston of the Chamber of Commerce and President William P. Witherow of the National Association of Manufacturers. They said they wanted...
...threat was still not imminent in days, or possibly even in weeks. But there was another threat. On Crete, held out of the great Rommel circus in the desert, were 250,000 German airborne troops, carefully trained by the parachute-glider expert, Lieut. General Kurt Student, for a swift thrust. Egypt, the Levant, the fat oil fields of Iraq were within their range. The United Nations, recognizing the threat, poured planes and men up from Suez and Basra. The U.S. pulled its crack airman, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, out of India, put him in command of its Middle East...
Midway had been a great victory, the second naval victory scored against the Jap. In the first, the Battle of the Coral Sea (TIME, May 18), the enemy had been scattered and turned back as he tried to cut the communications lines of the South Pacific. At Midway the threat had been greater. Apparently Midway was to have been a way station. Pearl Harbor was the goal, and disastrous defeat of the U.S. in the Pacific was inevitable if Pearl Harbor was taken...
...grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British flags could be seen snapping in the north wind above the copper dome of the viceregal palace, as gayly and unconcernedly as if the British Government were not facing the most serious threat to its power since the Mutiny...
...Threat. The core of the Congress resolution demanded that Britain withdraw politically from India, and threatened to use all the possible nonviolence of the people to compel Britain to withdraw. The resolution did not alter Gandhi's position that he does not wish to interfere with United Nations military forces in India (TIME, July 13). But Jawaharlal Nehru explained that nonviolence envisaged more than industrial strikes-it would be a general strike, peaceful rebellion. Nehru's thesis was simple: only Indians could organize India for war, because anybody could do anything better than the Government of India today...