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...walkover. Sixth Army infantrymen had been all but stalled in their drive along the coastal flats of Biak Island in the Schouten group, aimed at the capture of three airfields within heavy-bomber range of the Philippines. They had to fall back, call for reinforcements, amend their tactics. Last week they drove inland, outflanked the Japs, captured Mokmer airfield...
...problem of the Polish frontiers; the problem of Finland, of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; he has no profound ideas about the Balkans or Eastern Europe or the Near East or China. In general he seems content to take whatever proposals the White House and the State Department send down, amend them to suit the Senate's temper that week, and pass them...
With this agreement on principle, Congress is not apt to be urged to repeal renegotiation. The question is how to amend it without emasculating...
...Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...
...undoubtedly prepared to draw back if the Rommel line was too strong. In that event there would be no victor; there would be another stalemate. On the third day of assault the British had neither drawn back nor advanced very far. Nor had General Montgomery seen fit to amend his order of the first day: "Destroy Rommel and his army. We have won the first round-we have beat the enemy to the starting post. Victory should swing...