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Winchell told the press, whose major members stayed out of the controversy, that because of the Blue's action "the war is already lost back home." He hinted at dire backstage figures who were out to get him and, when President Woods telephoned him at his Miami Beach hotel, he sputtered: "How about using your network to say that I think the time has come when the Blue Network should be taken over by the people?" Woods kept calm and Winchell continued: "I intend to remain as free as the air, not as free as the air waves...
...last week continued confidently but soberly to do what no other small nation in Europe could do: run Switzerland as the Swiss thought it should be run. Seven soldiers of the Swiss Army were sentenced to death for treason -first death sentences for military espionage in Swiss history-despite dire warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht...
Yesterday, after months of quibbling and needless delay, the gaso-line-rubber conservation program went into effect throughout the nation. Yet, in spite of the Bausch report, and statements by President Roosevelt and Rubber Administrator Jeffers as to the dire necessity of this measure, many Oklahomans and 166,000 out of 546,000 Detroit car owners refused to register. Mr. Jeffers warned "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters--the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand...
There were those liberals who felt that London would in no way attempt to interfere with the freedom of India and other territories while England herself was desperately engaged in a struggle for her own independence. But bristling forth with the arrogance that was silent during dire emergency, the tweedy elements guarantee the world the Empire of old. They promise no large new concessions to British holding. The fall of Sir Stafford Cripps from a position of influence is more evidence of this...
...Toronto, which General and Mrs. Carpenter recently visited on their tour of inspection, the Army War Cry reported that after the official welcome, "brigades of Salvationists raided Toronto's sordid night-life haunts with dire results to enemy ranks. Scores of captured were escorted to the Temple where hot coffee was served, drunkards were sobered and repentant souls sought salvation...