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...Plainest significance of the appointment was that Franklin Roosevelt had discarded the conventional specifications. The reasons he had done so were equally obvious : Mr. Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire...
...single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible positions. The commit tees, whether or not they agreed with everything Colonel Stimson and Colonel Knox said, approved the appointments 14-10-3 and 9-10-5 respectively...
...spirit world. In parlor seances in many a medium's cottage along Lily Dale's wooded roads, the ether was crowded with voices. Reported Editor Juliette Ewing Pressing of The Psychic Observer: "The heavenly hosts are pleading with us these days to keep our balance and poise." Plainest talk came from the late Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator and Secretary of the Navy, who for 30 years before his death last July had dogged away at naval preparedness. "Mr. Swanson and I seem to vibrate on the same plane and he speaks to me often," said Mrs. Pressing...
...judgment, so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations." Last week the legislation was amended. And although Washington correspondents speculated on the political consequences, on the effects on business, shipping and foreign policy, the plainest reaction was calm...
Last week's staggering crises, diplomatic reversals, panics, had one plain effect on the Balkans. They sent citizens back to the simple nationalistic faith of their fathers like bombed refugees running for an air-raid shelter. Plain from Lake Balaton to the Black Sea, the trend was plainest in Hungary, where Hungarians had plenty of reasons for uneasiness: their...