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Help from Democrats. Meanwhile other Administration bigwigs were dramatizing the role of the U.S. in international affairs. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce with a fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above...
...organization into other Latin American countries, was able as the representative of some 4,000,000 workers to make his strength felt. An open split was averted by the arrival of C.I.O.'s Rolland Thomas, who, having had "a wash and a Scotch" at his hotel, made a fervent appeal for compromise. The compromise: ex-enemy delegates, if they present satisfactory union references, could be seated; otherwise they could only observe. ¶Britain's Citrine demanded that congress decisions be merely advisory, not binding on the constituent organizations, since Russia's vast voting strength...
Rudolf Hess, hairy; fervent disciple of Adolf Hitler, onetime No. 3 Nazi, who became the United Kingdom's No. 1 prisoner of war when he parachuted into England in 1941, was reported to be in a high state of "nervous and mental" deterioration, cutting up so much it required the strength of 30 guards to subdue...
...Eivind Berggrav, alone with his keepers on Christmas Day, may have much to comfort him. The Christian faith renewed by his fervent words and unyielding courage is on the march in Norway, and his occupied but unconquered country echoes the ringing words of Sweden's Bishop Aulen: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains...
...shaken off the persisting ill health which has checkered his recent years in the Senate with absenteeism. And Bob Wagner is still well-armored by his reputation as the author of early New Deal labor legislation. He has a steady independent following, and the longtime fervent blessing of New York's organized labor...