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...power to enforce his threat is limited by the jurisdiction of Interior to District of Columbia parkways, National Parks, Alaskan roads, Indian reservations, etc., but District of Columbia authorities, who know that the rancorous, cankerous Secretary is quite capable of stirring up trouble around the Capital, asked their 167,000 motorists to mend their driving ways...
...hold on his country's affection and, chiefly, his merit would not permit it. He was clearly kicked, but not very far, downstairs. There was important thinking to be done in India. If the Germans defeated the Russians, Germany would have a common frontier with India. This threat called for a Wavell, because it now appeared that Sir Archibald's special talent is what the British Army calls "Q," staff planning, rather than "O," operations...
...delicacy of the situation arose from its complexity, in which the matter of a U.S. threat to Vladivostok and the matter of Yosuke Matsuoka's misplaced, if not lost, face were only two of many aspects. Others...
Kept in the dynamite box by the Army and Navy for a month, a report to OPM by a committee of 25 top oilmen, released last week, told how the East might cope with Harold Ickes' threat of "gasless Sundays" (TIME, May 26). Chief conclusion: there is a shortage of tankers, which will make the shortage worst this winter, but it will be almost over by next summer. Meanwhile there are ways to alleviate...
...gather all the power into his grasp, but then refuses to use it." He will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct statement" is summed up in one incident...