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...idea was not exclusive with Com rade Litvinoff. Many Britons hotly championed it. Last week a Gallup poll showed that 50% more British people were thinking about an invasion of the continent than any other single problem. In a week when the Russians were having serious troubles, more people than ever felt that Britain should do all it could to help itself by helping Russia...
Southern Protestants view with mixed emotions the Catholic effort to proselytize in this almost 100% Protestant area, but most liberals agree that one reason why anti-Catholic bigotry has been so much stronger in the South is that com aratively few Southerners know any good Catholics...
...week went through a time-honored ceremony. The bugles blared "To the Colors," the flag was run up, the watch posted. The Navy's new station on the Midway Islands, first pier in the tenuous 5,860-mile water bridge between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, was in com mission...
...felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
...days later Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau told the U.S. the other half. Mr. Morgenthau corralled the Congressional leaders, laid before them a stack of indigestible truths, told them to swallow hard. That afternoon he announced com plete non-partisan agreement on a tax program increasing present taxes one-third, to raise $3,444,000,000 in new revenue. He described the tax program as possibly the largest in world history, estimated that it will produce $12,667,000,000 - two-thirds of the total estimated 1942 expenditure...