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...Teheran, when the Pope's interest in certain measures was raised, Stalin is supposed to have asked: "How many divisions has he?" The Pope still has no divisions. But with 204 million Roman Catholics in Europe and 107 million in the Western Hemisphere, and with one of the ablest foreign offices in Europe, the Vatican's views on the peace will be taken into practical account...
...week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy's assistant, Lester Bowles Pearson, O.B.E., one of the ablest men in Canada's small but expert foreign service...
Then the conference proceeded to elect to the Party's powerful executive committee: Dr. Edith Summerskill, Labor's ablest, fightingest woman M.P.; leftish M.P. Aneurin Bevan, Churchill's bitterest Labor critic in Parliament...
...Chiang found the strength. Chiang gave his armies a new, energetic Minister of War-young, able General Chen Cheng (TIME, Nov. 27). Just as important, Chiang had reorganized his civil administration. To China's No. 2 job, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, he appointed China's ablest administrator, his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Tse-veng ("T.V.") Soong. The crisis - military, economic and political - was now at hand. On its outcome rested not only the future of Chiang Kai-shek's Government, but the future of China's 400,000,000 people. The crisis...
Under Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the classic Junker who is generally regarded as Germany's ablest soldier, Field Marshal Walter Model was commanding in the north, and General Hermann Balck in the south. Model was personally decorated by Hitler last summer for stopping the Russians at the Vistula. Balck had shown defensive ability in the Ukraine, and after the Allied invasion of southern France he succeeded in bringing the remnants of his Panzer corps back to Germany. Now, wherever possible, Model and Balck are sacrificing substandard troops to save good ones. At sensitive spots they still...