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...this façade is deceptive. Behind it hides a strong and active mind, a harshness of will and temper. Ability and toughness brought Junker von Manstein, with his discipline and logic, close to plebeian Adolf Hitler, with his psychoses and intuition. Hitler must have respect for this good soldier. Manstein may have no respect for his Führer, but he bears him loyalty as the chief of state...
Even more unmistakably different from N.A.M.'s usual frostily Big Business façade was the attitude of its newly elected president, Robert M. Gaylord, who heads Rockford, Ill.'s small Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. Early-bird reporters flocking to N.A.M.'s press room caught his easy reply to a worried Old Guard trying to coach him on how to avoid "embarrassing questions." "They can't ask me any embarrassing questions," said Bob Gaylord blandly. Nor could they...
Constitutional changes already drafted at Algiers are enough to give postwar France a new political façade. Woman suffrage, long sought, would be granted. Prewar France's helter-skelter system of party representation in the Chamber of Deputies would be revised, with elections on a proportional basis. And the position of the Premier and his Cabinet would be strengthened; no longer would Premiers of France be hired & fired like casual help in a Christmas-week rush. All this sounded like the kind of democracy which Charles de Gaulle might gladly head...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
...ASTP unit as well as the College will be increased by the return of about 50 former members of the third-year ROTC who have just finished basic training and are awaiting vacancies in OCS. These men will take Military Science under First Lieutenant Thomas G. Burke, FA, and College courses from a list which the Army considers valuable, and will also have administrative duties...