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...that it is an Anglo-American organization like all other divisions and sections of Supreme Headquarters; . . . that it is a unique organization in this or any other war, being mixed "British-American, civilian-military, operating at all echelons, from the Chief of Staff's desk to the platoon commander's foxhole; that TIME'S reference is disturbing and offensive not only to the hundreds of non-OWI members of the organization but equally to those many OWI members who have worked long and hard to achieve effective integration of an Anglo-American civilian-military organization...
...group of Congressmen started a campaign of frankness to improve relations with Russia. They asked Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew: "Has the United States, through some tacit understanding, or through day-to-day working relations, become . . . part of an Anglo-American front against the Soviet Union?" Grew said no, adding that there was no part of the world where U.S. and Russian interests were in basic conflict...
...they would be heard and the Council could send a commission to Damascus to investigate what happened there,, even though France objected. If Syria then asked the Council to act on the result of its investigation and France objected, the Council would not be able to act. In the Anglo-American view, the Council would hear the Syrians but could not investigate over the French veto. If the Russians' interpretation prevailed, the Syrians would not even be permitted in the Council room if the French said...
...Beginning. The Russians had no monopoly on trouble. In the British and U.S. zones, policy differed from district to district, and in some areas military government teams changed almost as often as the weather (TIME, June 4). Harsh observance of the non-fraternization rule was robbing the Anglo-American forces of the cooperation of sincere anti-Nazis, while the necessity of employing existing staffs for administration kept many a Nazi in power...
...Soviet expansion, says Koestler, will consist of "brisk surprise blows . . . followed by soothing periods . . . faits accomplis [alternating] with tokens of good will." But there will also be "treaties of friendship and mutual aid" which will lead the victim from "collaboration" to "vassalization" so discreetly that an opportune moment for Anglo-American objection will never come. The disillusioned liberal, faced by the advancing Commissar, is likely to turn helplessly to the passive resistance of the Yogi...