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...save face when he opposed them. He could be convinced about bringing the fleet back, he said. But only, he added, "if I can be given a good statement which will convince the American people and the Japanese that ... we are not stepping backward." The Admiral asked a blunt question: "Are we going to enter the war?" "Not," said the President calmly, "if the Japs attack Thailand [Siam], the Kra Isthmus or the Dutch East Indies...
...complaint may not be partly sincere. The Russians fancy themselves as conquerors. Among their Allies in Tokyo they shoulder their way in and seize every opportunity to throw their weight around. Their own idea of victory, as revealed in areas where they are in occupation, is to make blunt demands at the point of a gun. But their method is not necessarily tougher or more effective than MacArthur's. He is using a policy much admired by Adolf Hitler, who was hardly a softie: making a demand which by itself does not seem to be worth resisting; after that...
...small movie theater in Hugo, Okla. (pop.: 5,909), Owner Allen L. Blunt was checking his books one night. He was astonished to find that the popcorn machine in the lobby earned almost as much as the box office. So with his twin brother Aimer L. he decided to try his hand at popcorn growing...
Last week the Blunt twins were cashing in also. Their company started to process eight million pounds of popcorn this year, and will ship 90 carloads all over the U.S. And Oklahoma's bumper crop, worth about $1.5 million, is being pushed into second place among popcorn growing States (Iowa, which grows about 30% of the nation's popcorn, is first). There was only one catch: the Popcorn Processors Association, meeting in Chicago Nov. 30, has one main item on the agenda: finding new uses for this year's huge crop. *Among others once astonished...
Articulate, blunt Jim Forrestal has learned the ins & outs of Washington, since he arrived there five years ago, a quietly cynical man who had been invited by Franklin Roosevelt to become one of the six presidential assistants "with a passion for anonymity." Like F.D.R., he was born and raised in Dutchess County. And he was a Democrat. Right there the likeness ended. He had worked part of his way through Princeton, where his nose was broken in a boxing bout, worked for the Tobacco Products Corp. and sold bonds for Dillon, Read & Co. He had served in the Navy from...