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...imponderable which Mr. Lewis declines to define so long as an implied third-party threat may be useful in swaying the big parties...
...reunion per se is a good & necessary thing for Labor. He had his tongue firmly in cheek when he was pushed into renewing peace talks last February, stuck it in further when he noted in Franklin Roosevelt's "invitation" a scarcely veiled threat to impose peace if none could be found by negotiation. Four weeks after the negotiations bogged down, John Lewis last week announced: "Peace, as such, is a secondary consideration to the organization [of non-union workers] . . . The A. F. of L. is still in control of a small group of leaders firmly entrenched, reactionary in their...
...troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...
Meanwhile Britain is organizing to meet the air threat. Her air armada-pursuit planes, fast Handley Page Hampden bombers-is rapidly being increased as her manufacturing program begins to hit a good stride. The Royal Air Force is equal in morale to the German, its older pilots have had longer training. The British Army's mechanized units (tanks, armored cars), although too few for war strength, are the most advanced in the world. And its officers-neither scholars like the French nor technicians like the Germans-are excellent leaders of men, if only rule-of-thumb strategists...
...though normal diplomatic forms have long been observed, trade agreements negotiated, the two countries have had fewer cultural relations than the U. S. and Russia. Strictly according to precedent were last week's negotiations: upsets, reversals of policy, war and the threat of war, aid to each other's enemies, suspicion, distrust and downright hatred culminating in iron-clad alliances have marked British-Russian relations for more than a century...