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Troubling Trinity. Many people look to a union, or closer union, between the United States of America and Great Britain with her Commonwealth and Empire as the new path to be followed in the future. I myself am doubtful about that. I attach the greatest importance to Anglo-American collaboration for the future. But I do not think that as what I might call a political axis it will do. If you were to pit the British Commonwealth plus the United States against the rest of the world, it would be a very lopsided world. So we come back...
...feud among U.S. officials in Moscow grew confused and hot. The friction between Faymonville and Brigadier General Joseph Anthony Michela, military attaché, grew no less intense when Ambassador Admiral Standley arrived. Faymonville, already at odds with his military colleagues, locked horns with State...
Vigorous, fastidious Faymonville, graduate of West Point, had watched Russia since 1915. He learned the language, served with the U.S. forces in Siberia in 1918, and for five years served at the U.S. Embassy as military attach...
Rebuke. If there were any doubt that De Gaulle referred to the feeling among Frenchmen that France was ignored at the Moscow Conference, it melted away two days later when the Committee declared: "[We] attach too high a price to inter-Allied solidarity not to be pleased. . . . However it appears to the Committee that settlement of the fate of Germany and her allies after their defeat cannot be undertaken or successfully conducted without the participation of France...
Devise a Trick. Earlier welding guns could be used only on horizontal plates. A small mound of powdered metal, of flux, was dumped on the plate and fused by electricity to attach the "stud." But on perpendicular plates there was no way to keep the flux in place. Instead, a small square of "welding pad" had to be laboriously welded, then the stud welded to that. Ted Nelson wearied of doing this, finally worked out a crude welding gun to make the job easier. But when he got "no thanks nor extra dough" he quit, and set to work perfecting...