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...Army reached Berlin tomorrow, most diplomats, from Herbert Hoover to Henry Wallace and back would be anxious to see the wave of Comrades recede from Unter den Linden as soon as possible. But how far back do they hope and expect a victory-flushed Red Army to go? If not all the way back, what is to become of Poland's claim for her pre-war eastern boundary? To date this is the most perplexing boundary problem facing the United Nations. Aside from the claims and counterclaims of the Polish government in exile and the master in the Kremlin, little...
...Cross Knight, Herbie Hoover, on his glistening white charger, Constitution, the forces of the Right were prepared for a duel to the death with the "un-American" American laborer and the New Deal on the "D-Day" report of the National Resources Planning Board. The plan, highly similar to the British Beveridge Report, has called for a greatly extended social security program, post-war maintenance of full employment guaranteed by the government, and larger government cooperation with industry as well as a share in management by labor. The plan is, admittedly, only a recommendation to Congress; details of legislation, administration...
...General Patrick Jay Hurley had disappeared from Washington again last week. His friends assumed that he was off once more on a mysterious war errand for the President. Washington could not get over the spectacle of Pat Hurley, every bit as anti-New Deal as his old boss Herbert Hoover, turning out to be one of Franklin Roosevelt's trusted lieutenants. Since Pearl Harbor General Hurley had spanned six continents as the President's special representative...
Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
...Congressmen and other dissenters like Herbert Hoover, Senator Green's report gave many other figures to chew on. Some (like Axis and Allied division totals) were stated without documentation. Similarly he left no room for Congress to discuss the specific wisdom of the plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chiefs had made their plans with full knowledge of the world situation and after a full study (said Senator Green) of the United Nations' shipping potential, the U.S.'s capacity for worrying by on a slimmer civilian economy...