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General Hershey himself is a genial Indianan, noted for his wry wit. His speeches in the past have been blunt and frank, and he makes no bones of his opinion that all able-bodied men should be either in the army or in war work...
...such a pass? The Chicago Daily News and the Sun had sniped away interminably at the Tribune, while the really big game-the all-important Senate seat-slipped through. No one had done either the leg work or the straight thinking necessary; the people were left helpless before a blunt fact: of all the 7,897,000 people in Illinois, none but Curly Brooks and Warren Wright were presented for the Republican Senate nomination in this year of great need...
These were strong words for Clemmie to take back to Winston Churchill, facing a political crisis over his strategy of building up Allied defenses and arms in 1942 to strike in 1943. They struck bluntly on the ears of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Sir Charles Portal, who had based their R.A.F. policy on the idea that Britain's decisive air front is at home and over western Germany. They were also blunt words for the U.S., a direct plea not to let the Pacific war obscure the Hitler front...
...Australian foreign policy has been the realization that Australia's present plight, and future welfare, are problems which once concerned Britain and Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...