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While Mussolini stalled, Franklin Roosevelt, no amateur at political warfare, had his say. Roosevelt had blistered Mussolini three years ago: "The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." Now he invited the Italian people to toss out the betrayer, the Fascist Party, and the Germans. In return, the President promised that Allied victory will mean that Italians can have a non-Fascist government of their own choosing and will be restored to real nationhood as respected (the President emphasized the word respected) members of the European family...
...Principle's Victory. For two days nothing could be settled. Fantastic incidents, cloak-and-dagger rumors confused the scene. When puffy-eyed, opportunist...
Davis took over all these agency chiefs except Donovan, who moved into the Army's mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head...
...Hull calls the Japanese war party "Dillinger" for short. He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst...
...PRAISE OF TIME'S [AUG. 10] CLASSIC WORD PICTURE ON LIEUT. GENERAL ANDREW G. MCNAUGHTON OF THE CANADIANS. I BELIEVE, AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS LIKE ME, THAT IF CANADA'S SCIENTIST IN KHAKI WERE GIVEN HALF THE FIGHTING CHANCE HE AND HIS CANADIANS DESERVE HIS BERLIN-POINTED DAGGER WOULD BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO STRIKE HARA-KIRI AT THE BELLY BUTTONS OF HITLER'S BARBARIANS. . . . I BELIEVE THAT FOR A LONG TIME TO COME YOUR CANADIAN READERS WILL REMEMBER TIME'S CLEAR, CONCISE AND COMPLETE COMMENTS ON CANADA'S WAR EFFORTS . . . AND THAT TODAY...