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...students, waterfront and factory workers. The political pattern was similar to that in Poland, where the Communist-controlled underground clashed with the underground loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting each other against a background of Japanese-inflicted misery, desolation, hunger...
...favoritism shown to automobiles had a multiple motive: 1) to provide jobs quickly for workers who have been engaged in aircraft and tank factories, 2) to capture some of the export market before U.S. competition becomes too keen. It was based on the stipulation that at least 50% of the 175,000 cars which Britain hopes to turn out in the next twelve months will be exported. As in the U.S., only essential users with official priorities will be able to buy cars, and they will be further discouraged by a new ?70-to-?80 purchase tax (atop Britain...
...another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...Stearns was one of a group of men General "Hap" Arnold had rounded up after Pearl Harbor to bring a keen civilian eye to the multifarious problems of the Air Forces. Hap Arnold laid out their duties, sent them out to rout the bugs from combat planes and men. Soon every U.S. war theater had seen eager little bands of middle-aged thinkers in uniform, tinkering, questioning, hot-seating around through enemy flak and fighters...
Gortatowsky's physical slightness is concealed by skilled double-breasted tailor ing; his keen-edged, taskmasterish mind is concealed by a lulling Southern murmur and a beatific smile. Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empire-beyond the first essential, obedience-Gorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness...