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...high spirits, U.S. Minister Robert Murphy and British Minister Harold MacMillan made a round of calls in Algiers. First they dropped in on French Foreign Affairs Commissioner Rene Massigli. They bore good news: Washington and London had granted limited recognition to the three-month-old French Committee of Liberation. Amiable Rene Massigli expressed "pride and satisfaction," the more so because the Anglo-American action released the spring that had held back Canada, Russia and most of the other United Nations. Ministers Murphy and MacMillan went on to visit Generals...
Scientists, like poets, are peculiar people. That is a fortunate fact for civilization, thinks Zoologist John R. Baker of Oxford University, who fears that the world may wind up with a planned society after the war. He has written a bitter book, The Scientific Life (Macmillan; $2.50), demanding that scientists be allowed to be as queer as they please...
WINGS OF DESTINY-The Marquess of Londonderry-Macmillan...
...Christians who find it difficult to reconcile their faith with participation in war, a famed Protestant clergyman last week made a Christian's answer, A Preacher Looks At War (MacMillan; $1.25). Daniel Alfred Poling tells why he sees no conflict with Christian faith in the defense of the things on which Christianity is based...
...Diplomat's Defeat. The breaking of the deadlock had been preceded by secret talks among General Giraud, General de Gaulle, Minister Murphy and his British colleague, canny Harold MacMillan, who commented: "Better to have an argument now than civil war in France later." Winston Churchill may also have had something to say. Clearly London and Washington were pleased over the agreement in Algiers. But to broad-shouldered, ingratiating Bob Murphy, whose inclinations - and those of many of his operatives - are toward the Best People and not the People, the victory of De Gaullism was a sharp defeat...