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Ostensibly, both men were appointed by the services and will be paid by the services, but all Washington knew that they were Nelson men. Haters of red tape, all-out expansionists and good cussers, they carried short lengths of lead pipe in their hip pockets, for use if the Army & Navy clung too stubbornly to old practices...
...also changed. No timid jade, once the job was his, he pushed Australian industry and manpower toward all-out effort. And he began to bellow at London...
...labor committees, priorities. Its chief: handsome, brusque James S. Knowlson, president of Stewart-Warner Corp. (radios), one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense orders in 1940. An old friend of Donald Nelson in Chicago, Knowlson has been helping handle priorities since last September. All members of the all-out war-effort school swear...
...Arrow for Detroit, there set up temporary, wire-partitioned offices on the ground floor of the Federal Building. Then he rushed to Detroit's huge Masonic Temple, laid down the law to 1,400 auto and auto-parts moguls. Said Kanzler: "We must have at once an all-out war economy...
While we rightly go all-out for South American solidarity, we handle Russia, our chief ally, with gloved hands--for instance, leaving Litvinov out of the Roosevelt-Churchill grand strategy talks, and squawking about Russia's reluctance to start war with Japan. There's no point of deceiving ourselves with a dream of the future world without Russia; there's no point of thinking that we can sit over here and draw up the map of Central Europe without Russia; there's no point of planning the military prospectus of the war without Russia. We've got to work with...