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Backfire. For this and more cogent reasons, the British delegation was immersed in gloom. A Gallup poll showed a 2-to-1 "No" vote to the question: "England plans to ask this country for a loan of three to five billion dollars to help England get back on its feet. Would you approve or disapprove . . . such a loan?" British Laborites were particularly hurt to find that, while only 55% of business and professional men were opposed, U.S. manual workers rejected the loan idea by more than...
...important than its showing that stupidity had been countenanced and even rewarded, that military intelligence had been mishandled. The proposal to combine all U.S. fighting services in one department -which the Army advocates, the Navy mortally hates & fears-was before Congress. The Army Board had already made the first cogent argument in the debate...
...Peace. The most cogent appeal came from War Secretary Henry Lewis
However, the argument that Philip Murray did not press was more cogent. With the falling off in take-home pay and the prospect that there may soon be up to 2,500,000 temporary unemployed (during prospective reconversion), there may be too much of a recession if pay rates are not raised...
France spoke her piece to the Big Three last week. What she had to say did not suit the power-thinkers of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks. But, considering General Charles de Gaulle's recent choler, the French attitude was surprisingly good-tempered-and too cogent to be ignored...