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Legislators began to choose sides over one of the hottest domestic issues confronting the 79th Congress. President Roosevelt had come out flatly for postwar compulsory military training. Now it was up to Congress...
When it met for the first time last week, nobody called the 79th a "Victory Congress." That bumptious phrase was tacked to the 78th, which had hoped to help write the peace, had watched Germany's stubborn legions postpone the day of victory. This setback had also changed the outlook for the 79th, which had anticipated in November's piping days that its main tasks would be to organize the peace and to legislate the U.S. back to a peacetime economy. Now the first job was an old job: get on with...
...this low note the 79th Congress, organized, sworn in and prayed over, took its first recess...
General Peyton Conway March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict...
Died. Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, 64, brusque, violent, onetime Commander in Chief of the Japanese Grand Fleet, strategist of Japanese submarine warfare, 79th Japanese admiral pronounced dead since May 27; in Japan...