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...Stettinius called a Big Five meeting, tossed Lie's name in as a "compromise candidate." Britain's Bevin said it was well worth considering, but he would like to consult his Government. Vishinsky, recalling criticism of long delays while Moscow thought problems over, voted a loud and prompt yes. In the General Assembly only three votes were cast against...
...idea got prompt support from Manhattan's pinko PM and the Boston Record. Joe Yancey, well-known Negro track coach, predicted that most Negro athletes would not go to San Antonio. But the red-faced A.A.U. stuck by its guns, said that special arrangements had been made in San Antonio to house and entertain competing Negroes...
Chinese reaction to the plan to temporize with Japan was prompt and bitter. Owen Lattimore, U.S. political adviser to Chiang Kaishek, cabled: "I have never seen the Generalissimo really agitated before. . . . [This] would dangerously increase Japan's military advantage in China. . . . The Generalissimo questions his ability to hold the situation together if the Chinese national trust in America is undermined...
Radios on Rails. Two-way radio communication between railroad trains was approved by the Federal Communications Commission, may be installed in all U.S. trains by Jan. 1. Thus trains will be in constant touch with dispatchers and with one another, should be able to prevent collisions by prompt reporting of obstructions or accidents...
Irrepressible Jimmy Doolittle had a retort to that one too: "If delay is the objective, such a suggestion will attain it. If sound, prompt action is the objective, the experience of the Baker Board indicates that you may get something less than wisdom...