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Vichy's cloak of neutrality was wearing too thin to hide much. In London, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton gave figures showing that Vichy's collaboration with Germany had been military, as well as economic and political. He said that in two months Vichy had sent the German forces in Libya cars, lorries, 5,500 tons of motor fuel...
Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
Morris Hirshfield, a retired Brooklyn cloak & suit manufacturer, whose skies and mountains look as though they were made of herringbone or tweed, and whose quizzical lions have feminine-looking fur collars. After seeing Rousseau's painting of The Dream he was inspired to try a nude...
Stripped of its national defense cloak, Lewis has the strongest case of the three. He wants a closed shop in coal mines individually operated by six of the nation's largest steel companies, and the records of the National Defense Mediation Board and of the steel companies themselves give him a tight argument. N.D.M.B. findings show that "90 per cent of the total annual production of bituminous coal is under union-shop contracts." And voluntary check-off cards reveal that "a large majority of the (steel companies') mine workers, exceeding 95 per cent in many of the mines, now belong...
...delay the strike pending mediation. He seized this moment, opportune for him and inopportune for the country, to further his own gains. But the Mediation Board should be criticized for trying, stupidly, to maintain labor's status quo by doing nothing. Morgan and his cronies have perverted the defense cloak in order to maintain an unjust open shop. And the President, his feet grown cold since the famous 1932-33 days, has failed to force settlement on the purely union-shop basis and thus to thwart the personal ambitions of Lewis and Morgan...