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...leaders of C.I.O. could think of only one man to be director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. It was Phil Murray, and Murray already had his hands full as president of C.I.O. In the end, without enthusiasm, they set up some hydra-headed boards to do the job that the late Sidney Hillman had done alone...
...Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S. commitment to do something that would actually help...
...released his statement to newsmen. The statement was a violent but confused attack on a policy which, he said, had let the U.S. be "sucked into a power bloc on the side of colonial imperialism." But his two-by-four whacked hard and specifically on what he called "hydra-headed direction and confusion" in the State Department. Some of the whacks...
...Hydra-headed State Department can hardly have a clear foreign policy. The fall of Mussolini found it without any in regard to Italy (see p. 17). The initiative on policy toward postwar Germany has been seized without any competition from the U.S. by the "Free Germany Committee" setup in Russia...
...among these are the historic three who fought through Stalingrad's siege and counteroffensive-Colonel General Markian Mikhailovich Popov, Army General Nicolai Fedorovich Vatutin and Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...