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...Mexico's Francisco Najera: "Shallow, unclear . . . worst...
...their coaches. But the smaller railroads are unwilling to buy their own Pullmans. If they do, they would be stuck with a surplus of sleepers when seasonal traffic is light. Thus, five months after Pullman filed its separation plan, Berge last week fumed at the proposal, calling it "unclear and ambiguous." His main objection: Pullman Co. was for sale as a unit to the railroads instead of being sold piecemeal, car by car to any buyer who might come along...
What the Japanese would do when they had steadied their lines and regrouped their divisions was unclear. Perennial optimists on the Allied side fondly hoped that the enemy was preoccupied with the still-remote threat of U.S. landings on the coast. But there was no indication that the Japs intended to confirm this view. Once food supplies had been laid up and winter uniforms provided for their troops, the Japanese were likely to strike again toward Kweiyang and Kunming, try again to cut off China from the Ledo-Burma Road (see below...
General Charles de Gaulle last week swept into full power. Out of the Liberation Committee went General Henri Honoré Giraud, former Committee Co-President, and three of his Committee appointees. For reasons as yet unclear, former Gaullist Defense Commissioner General Paul Legentilhomme also vacated his post. Simultaneously seven Gaullists entered the Committee's ranks. At week's end, the reconstituted group, facing up in Algiers to their first major problem since the coup, tackled Lebanese demands for independence with drastic and provocative action...
True or false (and at week's end the truth was unclear), even the report of the strike came to Curran as a bitter blow. For it severely prejudiced two pleas which he had just made to top officials in Washington. One plea was that the Navy remove its gun crews from merchant ships and put common sailors in charge of the guns...