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...Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., to the Japanese commander on Okinawa. "You fully know that no reinforcements can reach you. I believe, therefore, that you understand as clearly as I that the destruction of all Japanese resistance on this island is merely a matter of days, and that this will entail the necessity of my killing the vast majority of your remaining troops. ... I will acquaint [your representatives] with the manner in which an orderly and honorable cessation of hostilities may be arranged...
...meeting did bring into sharp focus one important problem: the wide disagreement on foreign-trade policies. U.S. delegates were the staunchest and well-nigh only advocates of free competitive trade, even though they showed no unanimous disposition to make the sacrifices postwar free trade would entail. Virtually all other delegates leaned towards cartels. Britain's Sir Clive Baillieu (pronounced Bailey) favored some control by "continuous and public review" of cartels-which he euphemistically called "trade accords...
...plans to relieve the depression but found herself unable to agree with any which were put into effect. . . . She came to regard the New Deal as totalitarian in design and stifling to enterprise. But her attention drifted presently to foreign affairs, where free and progressive feelings did not entail the embarrassment of dealing with facts close at hand. . . . Her estimates of the temper of America have been grandiosely inaccurate...
Beyond controversy was one point on which all Canadians agreed. There could be no subordination of Canada's sovereignty or her interests to those of Britain. The question was: Did Lord Halifax' brand of co-responsibility necessarily entail such subordination...
...vastly ambitious Russian scheme on the Smolensk front would probably entail strong flanking rushes-logically in the Staraya Russa and Orel areas. Although there had been local offensives at those two points for some weeks, they seemed to be spent...