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...time it left the door to settlement open a chink by agreeing to contest the coming elections and negotiate with the British Government. On the prickly problem of Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) the Working Committee had already hedged: Congress would oppose partition, but, if unsuccessful, it would not compel seceding Moslems to stay inside a Hindu India. From the Moslem League and its canny, cagey president, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, came no comment. He was too busy preparing his campaign in the northwest, heart of the hypothetical Moslem State...
...Byrnes's reputation is that of a skillful compromiser, able to compel agreement by patience, charm of manner and an elastic mind. He has the realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all his thinking. On one major point Secretary Byrnes will certainly agree with President Truman: U.S. policy will be much more American than Anglo-American. Jimmy Byrnes will be with the President in any strong and specific assertion of U.S. rights and interests...
...whether they will accept it." He refused to set up special experimental farms. Instead, by offering free fertilizer for the beaten soil, he persuaded thousands of farmers to experiment for themselves. TVA encouraged communities to form their own power districts. It never used its authority in attempts to compel acceptance. TVA did not destroy state boundaries; it kept reassuringly aloof from all state and local political squabbles...
...McNaughton, faced a tense House of Commons, summoned to hear the facts about the Army's reinforcements crisis (TIME, Nov. 27 et ante). The Prime Minister picked up a piece of paper. Loudly and clearly, head bobbing, he read an order-in-council.* The Government had decided to compel home-defense draftees ("zombies") to serve overseas...
Whatever Roosevelt and Churchill decided at Quebec about future blows against Japan remained a military secret. But there were signs that the Allied military disaster in Kwangsi Province (TIME, Sept. 25) might compel changes within China and thus lead to better things...