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Last week Anglo-U.S. friendship was more strained than at any time since German bombs began falling on London six years ago. Isolationists were licking their chops because, in the British loan debate, practical U.S. efforts toward world cooperation met their severest postwar challenge. The reason: an all-out Zionist campaign to smear Britain...
...whom are so new to the party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...
...fill the breach, the Church has launched an all-out drive among servicemen, and has found 5,000 volunteers so far. Candidates are screened at 108 selection centers throughout the Empire and in Army demobilizing areas. These centers are manned by committees of five (one of them a layman) who give prospective clergymen several days' once-over in an informal house-party atmosphere...
...considered raising its price ("at a time when PM was campaigning all-out to keep prices down!") and taking ads. PM no longer argued that ads were sinister ("most people like to read ads"), but only that its press equipment was not up to expanding to an ad-filled paper. Just give him a few hundred thousand more nickels a day, pleaded crusader Ingersoll, and he'll not only put out a bigger and better PM-he'll build up a whole chain of them...
...Atom? Last week in Washington hearings opened on the $100,000,000 Neely-Pepper bill, which would marshal "the best cancer brains in the world" for an all-out war on the disease, in the same way that the Manhattan Project conquered the atom. Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health .Service told a jampacked opening-day audience that there are not enough properly trained cancer researchers as yet even to begin such a program. Why not, he asked, use the existing facilities and experience of the National Cancer Institute as a nucleus for the research organization...