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...Martin Luther King Jr., leader of last month's Battle of Birmingham, appeared before 5,500 excited people and brought them shouting to their feet when he said: "You must defeat segregation in Chicago because the de facto segregation of Chicago is as bad as the de jure segregation of Birmingham. We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time...
Hawkins answered that this is a question which can only be answered in terms of a particular person, not "de jure...
Throughout the Chinese War, American emissaries with rare exception were willing to identify peace in China with the only stability that this nation had ever known. A succession of peacemakers, led by the Indian-fighter Hurley, allowed the de jure status of the Kuomintang government to whitewash the true structure of a monolithic, one-party government. For those in Chungking, the Chiang regime meant the law and the established order plus the only chance of carrying the Asiatic war to the interior lines of the enemy...
...Britain recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Government as the Provisional Government of France. So did the Canadian Government. Russia, which had already given virtual de facto recognition (after the Quebec Conference in August 1943) to De Gaulle's Government, now also recognized it de jure...
Army & Navy: De facto head of the Army & Navy Munitions Board (his de jure commission still to be signed) is Wall Street's Ferdinand Eberstadt, first civilian since War I to head the services' top procurement-coordinating body. Longtime friend and former partner of Navy Under Secretary Jim Forrestal, Ferd Eberstadt was also urged to his new job by his friend War Under Secretary Bob Patterson, after he did an undercover study and report on reorganization of Army-Navy supply staffs last fall. Ferd Eberstadt, 51, earned his Wall Street medals when he recovered from a pre-crash...