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...fluttering up to election time, Johnson said he would not "chew on" President Eisenhower, "just as I have not and I will not spend my time now trying to destroy any in my party or in other parties who might come to this high office. Mistakes have been made???and inexcusable ones. But my interest?and I believe the interest of most of my fellow Americans?is in curing those mistakes, in avoiding those mistakes, not in exploiting them for political partisan gains...
...Chairman Donald Nelson declared that the problem had to be faced, the decision had to be made???and soon. He and the Manpower Commission's chairman, Paul Vories McNutt, had told a House Committee that the U.S. must screw itself up to the mandatory control of all civilian manpower. But they knew that legislation alone would not solve the problem. The first, the basic decision was on the size of the U.S. Army...
Precisely this basic decision seemed to have been made just last week?exactly ten months after Pearl Harbor. At least in its essentials, the decision even appeared to have been made???wrapped up and delivered in its minimum detail (so many weapons for so many men in such & such a time) to Donald Nelson, Paul McNutt and other key civilians who had to have the information before they could effectively get on with their jobs...
...full stride. More than a score of nations were approached and persuaded. In 1929 the biggest loan of all was made???$125.000,000 to Germany. It was secured not by a direct monopoly but by an agreement to ban all Russian matches. Since Swedish makes a good 70% of all matches used in Germany the terms were satisfactory. Worry over the safety of this loan was known to be one of the things depressing Ivar Kreuger last week...
Senator Walsh soothed the large witness and continued: "But you know that some one made?...