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...November Revolution speech this week, Marshal Stalin declared that "it is not enough to win the war but we must make any future war impossible," that the United Nations must create a special organization "immediately to avert aggressions" in the postwar world...
...Chinese junket removed Don from Washington in time to avert an explosive feud inside WPB (TIME, Sept. 4). Otherwise, the trip's purpose was something of a mystery. But Donald Nelson had bustled happily for 16 days through Chungking's mud and rain, conferred and consulted dynamically with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his advisers. The patient Chinese, even after seven years of war, were polite-in fact, they were so courteous and cooperative that Don Nelson fell in love with China. If the President will only allow it, he would rather like to go back to China...
...judicious Post-Dispatch, cheering over the fact that St. Louis has never had a major bloody race riot,* called on the citizens: "It is better to bring this ugly thing into the open. It is better to avert a crisis before it happens than to weep about it afterward. St. Louisans, white and Negro, let's act like civilized human beings! Let's put hooligans of both races-the lunatic fringe-in jail to cool off when they begin flexing their muscles in public places! Let's continue our old tradition of decent relations between the races...
...Kilgore cheerfully noted that "it is impossible to spend too much to avoid a catastrophic depression," and cheerfully estimated the unemployment compensation cost at $8 billion for three years. (Others put it much higher.) While many Senators privately agreed that $8 billion would be cheap enough if it did avert a major depression, they had no confidence in New Deal management; they suspected the U.S. would get rid of $8 billion without getting rid of depression...
Gunmaker Hawley, who also has described himself as the "world's greatest hydraulic engineer," jumped into the oil industry with his own characteristic platform: "Oilmen are a bunch of fuddy-duddies." He thought the U.S. needed a new system of exploration in order to avert a potential oil shortage. Said he: "We shouldn't be thinking in terms of individual oil fields. We should think of new oil provinces...