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Drafted, willingly, into politics by his good friend Winston Churchill shortly after Munich, he made such a name for himself as a top administrator (he planned Britain's remarkably smooth transfer to severe rationing) that he was soon in the key Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...
...London, British and Gaullist representatives worked toward an agreement to transfer civil affairs in liberated French areas to Gaullist control, as soon as the military situation allows. In the background was the understanding that the U.S. would approve that kind of an agreement, so long as Washington does not have to come right out and say that it has recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation as the Provisional Government of France...
...What the press in America needs is a constitutional revolution . . . a transfer of power from publishers as kings to publishers and editors as prime ministers...
...still has an ace in the hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
Members of Dunster House will be required to state their preference for either Adams or Lowell, the two remaining Houses for civilian undergraduates. The transfer blanks, containing the students' choice for House, type of suite, price, and roommate, will be due to the Secretary of Dunster House by 12 o'clock...