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Last week the Timesmen were undaunted by Churchill's growl. So long as they continue to be, Britons will read the Times, to learn not what the Government says but what the Government must reply...
...land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants"-a new version of the "enemy of the people," the formula that Russia uses to indict Nazis...
From Moscow's Red Star had come an authoritative growl: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco's regime is an international problem that must be dealt with." Dictator Franco "and his German masters must understand that, having finished with the Germans, the United Nations will solve the Spanish problem also...
...Juntas & a Constellation. Britain's disclaimer, Moscow's growl, and the fact that one subject of conversation between Marshal Stalin and General de Gaulle (see above) would almost certainly be Generalissimo Franco, gave importance for the first time to the anti-Franco forces now loudly concentrating against the dictator in Mexico and Europe. They included two juntas and a constellation of politicos ranging from extreme leftists to royalists. But each of the juntas and most of the individuals detested each other almost as much as they did Franco...
...spend & spend, elect & elect," WPA Boss Harry Hopkins had spent over $5 billion on vast public works trying to prove that federal spending could make the U.S. economy move. But last week, in an article in the American Magazine, Spender Hopkins fervently embraced free enterprise. Skeptics might growl that this was merely a pre-election phony. But it seemed more than that...