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Funds for the Authority will come from State, War and Navy, thereby giving those Departments indirect control. The Authority itself will consist of the three Secretaries plus the President's Chief of Staff, currently Admiral William D. Leahy-thereby giving the services direct control...
Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...
...Soviet Russia's Constitution (Article 123): "The equality of the rights of citizens . . . irrespective of their nationality or race ... is an indefeasible [i.e., non-voidable] law. Any direct or indirect restriction [of those rights] is punishable...
This is a picture with a moral. In giving the story of Wilson's times, Zanuck has tried to give an indirect forecast of America's future. From Wilson's tragic failure he has drawn a powerful object lesson that America would do well to heed. To say that this picture has so far changed all American political thinking would not be true; but it cannot be denied that it has been a major factor in erasing isolationism of the millions...
Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew found it time to set the record straight, at least in part. He told of indirect, unofficial Japanese peace feelers. He reminded the U.S. public that the Japanese militarists, like the Nazis before them, hoped to produce a cleavage of U.S. opinion over continuing the war, thus hoped to wriggle out with a defeat that would not mean the end of Japan's ruling military caste...