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...remembered for his work during the war years when, as F.D.R.'s agent, he was the confidential troubleshooter sent to fix the hotboxes and burnt-out bearings of the worldwide coalition which won World War II. He was the prodder and pusher for more war production, the passionate pleader for unity, the go-between from Roosevelt to Churchill and Stalin. He was and regarded himself as an instrument, with the selflessness of an instrument...
...proposed an overall information agency, provided with funds by Congress, advised by the Departments of State, War and Navy but not answerable to them; a single overall director. No special pleader would be allowed to distract the agency or distort its facts. The agency would report directly to the President...
...story really begins in 1934, when a shot rang out in the Leningrad headquarters of the Communist Party. A student had killed Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party secretary. Practically nobody outside Russia had ever heard of Kirov (he was Stalin's political heir apparent and a special pleader for peace between Stalin and the opposition). But he is not likely to be forgotten, for his assassination touched off one of history's most cryptic and luridly arresting episodes-Russia's great Purge...
...industry and bilateral treaties.. .. The British problem is based entirely on the country's economy. If they don't export, they don't eat. This fact is lost sight of in some of the arguments heard here in America." The important question is whether Pleader Phillips is right or wrong about the effect of Empire preference. The objection to this-and to import licensing, export controls, cartels and bilateral deals -is that they are all barriers which will reduce the total amount of world trade and everybody's absolute share in it, including that...
...Wheel of Fortune. If the ex-Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...