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...Heard that famed, old (87) white-whiskered George Bernard Shaw had described U.S. "intervention" in "the powerless little cabbage garden called Eire" as "a really stupid mistake." Sniped Playwright Shaw: "Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt is overworked and is catching too many colds...
...Germany will be neither powerless nor unimportant. Says Dr. Notestein: "Germans will continue to form the largest ethnic group west of the Slavs. On their continued productive efficiency will depend much of the economic welfare of Europe. It [must] be maintained. Otherwise, a train of poverty and disillusionment, spreading throughout the Continent, might soon bring a new political upheaval...
...plot thickened some more - and got a new hero. The National Petroleum News front paged a sensational charge, from "responsible members of Congress," that the real power behind PRC was Franklin D. Roosevelt's - and Britain's - great & good friend, Harry Hopkins. Ickes, said the News, was powerless even to carry out any policies, let alone formulate them...
...Wehrmacht had spent precious, dwindling reserves in the November-December counterdrive west of Kiev. Now the hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time. The Russians spoke of many prisoners taken, of "disorganized" Wehrmacht columns "powerless to stem our troops." But they also admitted the fierceness of German resistance. Marshal von Manstein's men held out long and bitterly in their strong points, could still stage local counterattacks...
...idea of federation. The Czecho-Slovak Government in Exile has already made its peace with Stalin and turned thumbs down on a union with Poland. It looks as if Europe were going to remain fragmented, or merely united on the negative idea of keeping the German continental center powerless...