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Meanwhile, changes impend in Southern political alignments. If the Republicans nominate Eisenhower, who looks remarkably unlike Thaddeus Stevens, observers expect that he will get more Southern votes than any Republican in history. That could lead to the extension of the two-party system to the South. With it could come a re-establishment of the delicate operations of Calhounian compromise which do not require the clumsy open threats of bolts by party leaders...
...Weatherman Gromyko, whose head pops out when storms impend, just as Jacob Malik sometimes emerges to indicate clearing skies, might thunder against the Japanese treaty but he could not prevent it. The State Department had drafted a tough set of procedural rules which forbid amendments, limit each delegation to one hour's formal comment, rule out debate on points of order. But these rules must be adopted formally by the conference itself, which may give Gromyko a chance to get in his propaganda licks first. His audience will be vast: the treaty sessions in San Francisco's Opera...
Some accounts took these and other Churchill remarks to mean that invasion of the European continent is near. But if the Prime Minister gave any guide at all to the impending sequence of events in Europe, it was in a reference to Russia: "It is here," fre said, "that the greatest battles seem to impend." His estimate of Axis strength in Russia: 190 German, 28 satellite divisions...
...Senator Glass's point was that such use of Federal Reserve funds is not only dangerous but outside the law's intention. The danger is patent: when more and more money is speculated, tension increases, crashes are thought to impend-and there is nothing that is, but thinking helps it to be so. The impropriety is less patent: the Federal Reserve law does not prohibit rediscounting of Federal securities for speculative purposes...
Today two vital events impend in these onetime "Lost Provinces," which were regained by France from Germany at the close of the War: 1) Throughout Alsace-Lorraine there will shortly be tried numerous pro-German citizens charged with plotting against France; 2) At the very time when passions are being stirred by these trials, Alsace-Lorrainers will be casting ballots in the French general election of this Spring...