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...Fedosimov thought the best collective phrase was "Soviet peoples." Then he confessed sadly that the Soviet peoples have the same trouble-and persist in calling themselves Russians, even though they know it's wrong. As wrong, he added, as for the citizens of the U.S. to call themselves Americans...
...treating of the Japanese Emperor, you persist in recognizing him as the religious head of his people. As a matter of fact, only about one-third of the Japanese are Shintoists, nearly all of the rest being Buddhists who do not recognize him as anything but their Emperor in whose name all Government affairs are transacted...
...long as war orders have to be met the 'bottleneck' problem will persist. There will be shortages of ... raw materials . . . of one component or another ... of key machines. There will be labor bottlenecks. . . . The task of breaking down these bottlenecks in our complex industrial organization is not insurmountable, but we are now learning that it is difficult and timeconsuming...
There were still an estimated 30,000 Japs scattered throughout the Islands; U.S. and Filipino troops were burning and grenading them out of caves and jungle hideaways. Said the communiqué: "Some minor isolated action of a guerrilla nature in the practically uninhabited mountain ranges may occasionally persist, but this great land mass of 115,600 square miles, with a population of 17,000,000, is now freed of the invader...
...Great Britain is taking the lead in causing disunity among the Allies. . . . My belief is that Great Britain will persist in seeking to expand her now vast empire and to form blocs of nations here & there all over the world. . . . With a navy larger than the combined navies of all other countries in the world and a respectable army, it would seem to me that we should be able to force the British to see the light...