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...catch more & more sly grins on peasant faces. The peasants, who have nothing to lose in the flight of Rumania's mighty, have nothing to fear from Russia's Red Army. In Rumania recently, the clash and clatter has been less the preparation for battle than the headlong stampede of the wealthy and great for visas and seats on the outbound trains...
Despite a few fumbling attempts to forbid the banns, the writers of three of these books insist that the U.S. should prepare for a golden honeymoon with postwar Russia. There is unabashed wooing in Foster Rhea Dulles' The Road to Teheran. More surprising is the headlong courtship of Pitirim A. Sorokin, the Harvard sociologist who was once a member of Kerenski's Cabinet and an unrelenting foe of Lenin and Trotsky. There is nuptial jubilation in Walter Duranty's USSR. But there is little besides gloomy foreboding in David J. Dallin's Russia and Postwar Europe...
...down to lunch with tough, young looking (47) Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral The Lord Louis Mountbatten, to hear the news from southeast Asia at first hand. Those who were not asked to lunch plunged headlong into weighty speculations on present and future Allied strategy in Burma. General Wedemeyer, emerging from the White House, said nothing. Said the President: Supplies are reaching China over the Himalayan Hump in a "satisfactory" manner...
...soundings off U.S. coasts. She died in the early dark of July 7, 1943, deep in the Kula Gulf between New Georgia and Kolombangara in the South Pacific. Her pallbearers: the eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers which had gone down under her guns in her short career of headlong action...
When OPA asked restaurants to go back to early-April price levels, Manhattan's famed Stork Club pitched headlong into the battle against inflation, rolled back its price for coffee-from...