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...Matchek hurried to Zagreb, there to confer for days with other leaders of the minority which King Peter's father, Alexander I, treated so high-handedly for years. The Croats could exact a high price for their allegiance, for Croatia could not be defended. Even complete autonomy would hardly pay them for the loss of their homes, if Germany attacked Yugoslavia. As one old Serb said to the ubiquitous Ray Brock: "In Serbia, if you find a single piece of furniture older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs...
...Asked Congress to set up small Senate and House appropriations subcommittees to confer regularly with him in order to keep informed of his activities under the Lend-Lease...
...Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to confer any additional powers to authorize the employment or use of persons in the land or naval forces of the United States at any place beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere except in the territories or possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands...
...Willkie faced the sharp-eyed committee as the defeated candidate for the Presidency. More than anyone, Wendell Willkie had warned the U. S. against the Third Term, which the U. S. had decided to take anyhow, and against such concentration of power as the Lend-Lease Bill would now confer on the President. He had been defeated; and as he waited for the hearing to begin, it seemed that he might face another and perhaps final defeat if the Republican Party - whose professional politicians were united against the Lend-Lease Bill-rejected his counsel and his leadership. To his rival...
...committee room of the huge, grey stone House of Commons in Ottawa last week the nine Provincial Premiers of Canada met with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British...