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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary speeches in Moscow (see above) were far overshadowed, in importance and revealing detail, by an other speech - made last August. The speech was delivered by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson got the text last week, and found in it the best report in years on how it is with Russia...
...world. In five bleak chapters he tells why. He warns that the U.S., because of the shrinking of space and time by technology, has inherited Britain's hereditary role as antagonist of Europe's No. 1 power, whoever that may be. He also reports in detail the Soviet plans for a big navy. His grim conclusion: "The coming period in world history will be, at best, a period of armed truce...
...Congress acts, the Army & Navy are ready. They have a blueprint for training the nation's 18-year-olds, in greater detail than has yet been announced...
...this point the committee began to ask questions. Would this plan preserve the unity of action the services had worked out, laboriously and wastefully, during the war? How would the plan work, in smaller detail? Secretary Forrestal's answer was unsatisfactory. The details, he said, would have to be withheld: they were under study by the Senate and House Nav al Affairs Committees. Besides, he added, he was not actually sponsoring the plan, yet ; he just hoped that it would be studied...
...kind of pictorial shorthand. Recalls Shinn: "Sketches, if any, made on the scene, were hurried; usually mere markings with numerals shot off at tangents. If a [building] fire was to be covered, then a marginal notation . . . 18 stories and seven across, representing windows. A quick note of some detail of a cornice or architectural peculiarity was drawn in more carefully. More crosses where fire blazed in windows." Back at the drawing-boards the sketches became detailed pictures...