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LONDON--Germany has decided to take former French Premier Edouard Daladier, former Premier Leon Blum and Gen. Maurice Gamelin, French Commander in Chief before the 1940 collapse to Germany "in order to forestall a planned British-American coup de main against them," the German official news agency said in a broadcast tonight...
...Chief Roosevelt spotlighted the growth of the Army Air Forces, whose enrollment is expected to jump from 1,500,000 to about 2,450,000 by year's end. He also corrected two situations: as a lieutenant general, Arnold 1) has been the only member of the Joint (British-American) Chiefs of Staff to wear less than four stars, 2) has had six of the eleven U.S. lieutenant generals who are overseas serving under him while sharing his rank...
...visit to Washington of Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary, who was prepared to consult with American officials on the political and economic problems of post-war cooperation. Long an internationalist, often touted as the next Prime Minister, Eden was a happy choice to initiate British-American conferences. A second encouraging sign lay in the announced intention of a bi-partisan group of U. S. Senators to offer a Senate resolution tomorrow, calling for American sponsorship of a United Nations' conference on peace planning. But peace planning was not yet merely a matter of marmalade-and-muffins conferences...
...housing units; 2) transport, where the pent up demand for automobiles is immense; 3) the need for a vast, modern highway system; 4) adequate medical facilities and care for the health problems of the industrial age. In addition Kaiser pointed out: "The Atlantic Charter is no bilateral guaranty of British-American supremacy. Let it be said again that there will never be any significant prosperity in America as long as there are great hosts of people living on the margins of poverty...
...talk about a second front. All I can say is-the sooner the better." Promising an attack "within the immediate future," Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Britain, declared: "Our enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British-American air force...