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...Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious colonials...
Purpose of "Operation Musk-Ox," said National Defense, is to study "winter operations generally in the Arctic weather zone," to assess "the mobility of oversnow vehicles." But everyone knew that any foreseeable war would not be won-or even fought-with tracked motor vehicles. What soldiers knew was that the polar icecap was no longer an impenetrable natural defense on Canada's topside. So "certain technical research projects in Arctic air and ground warfare will [also] be studied. . . . The expedition is expected to obtain information of immense value...
...Bill Is Totaled. Now that it had time to assess the war damage, the Philippines Chamber of Commerce estimated the cost of needed machinery and equipment at a staggering one billion pesos ($500,000,000). Most businessmen pinned their hopes for new capital on war damage payments from the U.S. But the U.S. as yet has made no decision on paying them. The Commonwealth, with a budget of 400,000,000 pesos and income of 7,000,000 pesos, has no cash to hand out to anybody...
...traditional method whereby British parties assess their vote is based on a personal canvass of voters in each constituency immediately after the election campaign opens, again in the middle of the campaign, and finally just before voting. On polling day, it is customary for checkers at the polling booths to ask each voter for his polling number, which gives a clue to his name and address in the electoral register. These checkers often find out from the voter whom he has voted for. The ballot is secret, but many voters, especially Laborites, are quite willing to reveal their vote. Estimates...
...Americans must make is a serious one-even if only a tithe of what each party has said of the other is true. And all the written words, the stares of the millions of eyes, are concentrated on Challenger Dewey with one intent: to divine his true character, to assess his true worth, to measure him against the well-known qualities of Franklin Roosevelt...