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Meantime the snapping at Allied flanks in the city went on unceasingly. When a Soviet fighter plane dived into a British transport (15 died, including the fighter pilot), the Russians had apologized in jigtime, then as quickly reversed themselves. Wrote Red Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky in an outstandingly insulting note: attempts to blame the Russian pilot for the crash "can be interpreted by me only as defamation apparently following provocative aims." Robertson's reply was surprisingly mild; he asked for a joint investigation...
...meet the outcry against differences in rates between different sections of the country,* the government ordered the Board of Transport Commissioners to look into the possibility of equalizing rates. It would take about a year, and in the end it would probably mean little, but on paper it looked nice. Furthermore, the survey might help to quiet Liberals from the Maritimes and the West who had joined the Opposition in protesting the new charges...
...evening last week a shimmering four-engined transport touched down at an airport outside Frankfurt, Germany. Seven weary but grinning Chicagoans stepped out into a 35-mile-an-hour wind that felt like Michigan Avenue in November. "A little University of Chicago" in Germany had come to set up shop...
...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
...member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was killed when he flung himself on a German hand grenade as it rolled toward two of his comrades. The President awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously. Last week, in a ceremony at the Brooklyn Army Base, the Army transport Wilson Victory was renamed the Private Sadao S. Munemori in his honor, and in honor of all Nisei who had died in the service of the U.S. Said his brother: "Sadao told my mother that he would come home. But he said that the important thing was his duty...