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After a reception and a 90-minute drive back to Washington, the President was off on a five-day holiday. It looked for a time as if rainy, foggy weather would hold him back, but at 7 p.m. his "Sacred Cow" transport plane put him down 795 miles away, in front of a cheering crowd at Blytheville...
...Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field...
Last week in London eleven nations signed a pact creating an advisory European Central Inland Transport Organization. This was in some ways broader, in others narrower than Truman's idea. It was broader because it included railways and highways as well as waterways; it was narrower because it affected only immediate operational problems, did not establish the political principle of internationalized transport. Russia, joining in the operational agreement, wanted more time to study the broader principle...
...supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
...each homebound transport an information crew (one officer, six enlisted men) mingled with passengers, encouraging conversations and questions. They were well primed on the workings of the G.I. Bill of Rights. And they toted information kits which included copies of TIME, the World Almanac, and Army orientation pamphlets...