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All last week Franklin Roosevelt had been busy with conferences pointing toward Quebec. He appointed Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau as a special Cabinet committee to work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full...
But it was Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes who wrapped up all the hastily formed plans into one glittery package, and in some 6,000 politically well-chosen words, revealed the whole Administration plan for V-E day. Jimmy Byrnes announced that when those happy days were here, there would...
Had businessmen chafed under straitjacketing controls? Away with all such shackles, said Jimmy. Had housewives grumbled under rationing? There would be mountains of food. Czar Jimmy promised plenty of everything, and the removal of all possible controls. The Byrnes statement looked like politics but also good sense, for it was...
For Businessmen. War production will be cut back at least 40%. The Controlled Materials Plan (known to businessmen as "Gripes! More Paper") would be dropped. Most manufacturers will be virtually free to make anything they want. War work, as much as possible, will be concentrated in Government plants, to free...
Said the New York Times: "The President's role in this matter has been uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between...