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...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
...that put an end to speculation, in both Britain and the U.S., that a V-E day proclamation might follow immediately after a Russian-U.S. junction...
...General Eisenhower's armies ate deeper & deeper into the Reich, approaching Berlin and Dresden, and the Russian steam roller began clanking westward from the Oder River, the hottest question in the Allied world was: when will V-E day come? Behind that was another, subtler question: at what stage of German disintegration would a victory proclamation be justified? The second question was answered this week by Eisenhower in characteristically straightforward and sensible fashion: "There will be no V-E day until Germany is completely occupied, including all pockets of resistance, and the German Army is completely destroyed...
...housing units in the first full year after V-E...
...Krug kept mum. But he flatly denied reports that the industry has already been given the go-ahead to turn out 250,000 cars in the fourth quarter of this year. Actually, automen knew as well as Krug that there would be no signal given for auto production until V-E...