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Voice of Stalin. A devout Communist, 50-year-old Zhukov has been Stalin's political confidant, now to be entrusted with Berlin and the delicate business of speaking for Stalin in whatever Allied councils might govern a beaten Germany...
...with the road's completion, expected soon. In Chungking and elsewhere he talked with U.S. generals, Chinese leaders. The more he saw and heard, the more Mike Mansfield was convinced that China's gravest problem was the rift between the Kuomintang and China's Communists, who govern 90,000,000 Chinese.* Said...
...reform, you have usurped our sovereign . power by curtailing the Bill of Rights, by short-circuiting the states, and by placing in the hands of a few men in executive commissions all the powers requisite to tyranny; and we, the people, say to you: we do not want monopolistic government, any more than we want monopolistic industry. Give us back the powers that our forefathers declared to be ours; liberate us to govern ourselves...
...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...
Last week there were unmistakable signs that not all Poles recognized the right of the Lublin government to govern them. Polpress, the Lublin government's new semiofficial press agency, reported violent resistance to Lublin's efforts to draft its new army, assassination of officials who tried to enforce the decree. Lublin blamed "internal delegates" of the Polish Government in Exile for these "gangster attacks," threatened them with "the full rigor of the law." "All good Poles," said Polpress, greeted the draft with enthusiasm...