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...from the world of Goddard, since old William Randolph Hearst keeps a dimming eye on the Weekly's ways. He bombards Porter daily with telegrams and letters, story ideas for the future and critiques on past issues. Latest Hearst concern (which was also one of his earliest): Will the Ice Age Return...
...started again until six weeks ago-too late to ease the present crisis. Belatedly, this spring, the Army also ordered 1,600 troop cars. WPB has issued high priorities for the manufacture of 664 passenger cars, but the bulk of them will not be delivered till December at the earliest. If deployment continues to move faster than its schedule, the Army will have to dip into the civilian supply again...
...Even the airmen's General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, who yields to no man in all-around cheeriness, conceded that the Japs might last through 1946. Behind this unusual alignment, observers could detect a mild conflict in strategy: the admirals seemed to favor invasion of Japan at the earliest possible moment as the best way to get the war finished quickly; some airmen clung to the hope that air power, given enough time, could pound Japan into surrender...
...Hirohito's earliest mentors were the war lords who had made modern Japan a power-stern General Maresuke Nogi, the victor of Port Arthur, and Admiral Heihatiro Togo, who, at Tsushima, had sunk most of Russia's feckless fleet in one of history's decisive naval battles...
...would permit, tore them selves getting through the barbed wire to touch us, to talk to us. Some of them were nearly mad with joy. Here were the men of all nations whom Hitler's agents had picked out as prime opponents of Naziism; here were the very earliest Hitler haters. Here were German social democrats, Spanish survivors of the Spanish Civil War, a correspondent for the Paris Soir, who cried so hard I could not get his name...