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...stiff ruling against job-skipping that previously applied only to 19 isolated "trouble spots" will thereafter bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...
...meeting broke up and the bowed men filed out, some of them in tears, De Gaulle sidled up to Churchill and begged for a word. Resistance could go on, he said; France was battered but not beaten. Would Churchill stand behind him if he tried to bind the falling parts together, arrest the toboggan of doom? Churchill knew almost nothing of this stiff, self-conscious giant. Gloomily he gestured his agreement. A British destroyer took De Gaulle to England...
...people are ahead of Congress, which is now impeding any clear post-war commitment," he continued. "Now is the precise time when we should make these commitments to bind us in advance of a stampede of reaction which will be certain to follow the war. If the war should drag on for any considerable length of time, and its lessons forgotten, statutory declarations now will make the wave of reaction less intense...
...Ernest Fremont Tittle, Detroit's Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, Pasadena's Dr. Albert Edward Day, New York City's Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman are uncompromising pacifists. These pacifists led the last General Conference (at Atlantic City) to declare: "The Methodist Church, although making no attempt to bind the consciences of its individual members, will not officially endorse, support or participate in war. . . . Agencies of the Church shall not be used in preparation for war. . . . Buildings of the Church, dedicated to the worship of God, shall be used only for that holy purpose, and not by any agency...
...Album is definitely being published. Due to the long period of time necessary to print and bind it, it will not be ready for distribution till some time in July. All copies, unless otherwise requested, will be sent to the home addresses of the subscribers...