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...machinery of the National Defense Mediation Board, which had been hum ming for eight months, finally coughed and groaned to a virtual halt. When the board's decision went against John Lewis in the captive-mine dispute, C.I.O. members resigned and C.I.O. withdrew its disputes from the board's dominion. Since C.I.O. and labor disputes are practically synonymous, the board was left with no work to do. Last week in Washington, board stenographers polished their bright red fingernails; some board members went off to fish...
...World War II approached, Russia withdrew into an isolation even deeper than the previous one. Maxim Litvinoff resigned from the Foreign Commissariat and his successor made the marriage of convenience with Germany. Russia began to aggress, Britain and the U.S. to object. To Russia, Britain and the U.S. became known as the imperialist nations...
Russians have had a great reputation for industrial fallibility. They have been dismissed as Orientals, incapable of understanding machines. But one set of Orientals, the Chinese, withdrew in the face of military reverses to China's mountains, and there succeeded in pinning down 1,000,000 Japanese soldiers for over two years. Even allowing for Soviet weaknesses and failures, the Russians already possess an industrial setup that makes Chungking look pretty primitive...
With these assurances in the record, the Defense Committee, apparently satisfied, withdrew and left the field of battle to Ickes and Jones. Disclosure of Ickes' letter had made their feud official, squared off the Administration's noisiest, most irresistible force against its most silent, most immovable object...
...stopped. And all its occupants withdrew their heads from the opened windows from which they had been leaning to get a better view of the skirted figures that had chanced to pass their way. And they all got out. And they al had shiny sabre-toothed hammers. They wore tennis shoes and old gray flannels and carried little black books. One, and he was their Leader, wore blue jeans and carried a compass, a battered sabre-toothed hammer, a battered black book and looked very wise. He led them out over the rocks...