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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This progression is a certainty. The timing and order of its development are highly uncertain. The timing and order, even as they exist today in secret Allied plans, are subject to change with the fortunes of war on the fringe, in Russia, in the air penetration of inner Europe, in the battle of sea supply. All predictions are idle, and they will be even more so as the armies pause to regroup, as commanders pause to reconsider, as the unforeseeable effects of the first blows sink in upon the enemy. All that the public can know is that certain objectives...
Last week Russia opened the door to a rapprochement. Said an editorial in Izvestia: "The Soviet Union continues to share the view that after Hitler's defeat a strong and independent Poland must exist in Europe...
...certain that he and the Chief of his General Staff, 46-year-old Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, did not take the signs to mean that the Red Army had already beaten the Germans. Joseph Stalin has seen too much of war: his country and his Red Army exist today only because they proved the power of defense on the long Russian line. If his young protege, Marshal Vasilevsky, had been blind enough to make that mistake, he could never have achieved the most rapid rise in the Red Army's recent history...
...Clearly the Committee of Liberation is not yet a de facto, sovereign, unified power. Within the French Empire there now exist two armies responsible to two different commanders who are not responsible to one war minister. In terms of the hopes of a few days ago, this is a turning back of the French political clock. And hollow sound the recent words of De Gaulle and Giraud: 'Frenchmen, the unity you have been waiting for has been achieved...
Meanwhile one U.S. record manufacturer happily continued making records as though Boss Petrillo and his ban did not exist. Eli Oberstein, proprietor of Classic Records Co., has no truck with vocal ersatz. Many of his records are made in Mexico and shipped to him in plastic pressings via air mail. Even well-known musicians, anxious to pick up some change, have brought him records they have made themselves...