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...were historical characters stepping out of a book of Roosevelt memoirs. Among them: Francis Biddle, Frank C. Walker, Dean Acheson, Thurman Arnold, Adolf Berle, Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Wayne Coy, Elmer Davis, Leon Henderson, Archibald MacLeish, Paul A. Porter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, Robert E. Sherwood, Aubrey Williams. A fortnight ago in Paris, U.N. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been noticeably silent on presidential politics, took pen in hand and sent a letter to President Truman (published last week by the White House): "I am unqualifiedly for you as the Democratic candidate...
...Melancholy Importance." Though Reston was the first to challenge Candidate Dewey's version of history, he was not the only one to note the discrepancies. Fortnight ago Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, in his only speech of the campaign, gave Dewey full credit for agreeing to bipartisan liaison at the top level. But he admitted that the bipartisan approach "was first initiated informally in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the chairmanship of Democratic Senator Tom Connally of Texas." Ailing, 77-year-old Cordell Hull added a plague-on-both-your-parties footnote from a Bethesda...
...exception to the Nationalist strategy of evacuation was Mukden (see map), site of the best arsenal in all China. Twice in the last fortnight Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had flown north to confer with General Wei Li-huang, Mukden's commander, and stir him to a more active defense. As the garrison from starving Changchun hacked southward to join the Mukden forces, Wei's columns drove down to retake the port of Yingkow, reopening Mukden to direct sea supply. More of Wei's troops thrust west to relieve Chinhsien...
...danger caught North China's Nationalist commander Fu Tso-yi badly off balance. A fortnight ago Communists had pushed up north of the Great Wall west of Tatung. When Fu's troops dashed westward to drive them back, another Communist force from the north came down in their rear to strike the rail line west of Peiping, threatening to sever it completely and cut Fu's army in two. If the Communists succeeded' in this, Peiping, Tientsin and all North China would be lost...
...fortnight ago, the Atomic Energy Commission had reserved the right to say what unions are acceptable on atomic projects. It had barred the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers and United Public Workers-on AEC's suspicion that there are Communists in its leadership...