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Splendid Idea. To De Gaulle's persistence and to General Eisenhower's common sense is due the credit for this happy state of affairs. When, solely on his own initiative, General de Gaulle visited Normandy in June, he left behind François Coulet as Regional Commissioner and Colonel Pierre de Chévigné as military representative with instructions to recruit and train a French fighting force in Normandy. Upon his return to England, De Gaulle called on General Eisenhower and casually told him what had been done...
...Freshman Red Book of the Class of '47 will be ready for distribution in about two months, it was announced by Thomas L. P. O'Donnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Red Book. Work is progressing slowly on the book due to the ever-present manpower and material shortages...
...large part of the Negro 92nd Infantry Division trained for almost a year at Fort McClellan, Ala., with no serious trouble. San Diego reported a lower percentage of rape cases among Negroes than among white servicemen. Tucson's Chief of Police reported: "Conditions excellent, due to exceptionally good, behavior...
Some of the Morgenthauful error was due to the failure of the armed forces to take into account the increasing efficiency of U.S. industry, which trimmed the prices of materiel. Examples: Consolidated Liberators, which once cost $238,000 each, now cost...
Also included are thumbnail sketches (written with fluoroscopic understanding of the trade-union mind) of many of Dubinsky's predecessors and contemporaries. Tailor's Progress is one of the few readable books about labor, due in part to Stolberg's lifelong familiarity with his subject, in part to his clearly thought-out philosophic position (he was Harvard-trained under Professor Emeritus of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking), which strengthens his thinking without getting in the way of his writing, in part to a gift for phrase typified by Stolberg's famed comment...