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Roosevelt would be mistaken to look on Flynn's rebuff as a slap in the face of the Administration. The balance of power which turned the scales against this appointment was in the hands of men who have been staunch supporters of the President in his whole foreign policy...
...British Raj last week gave one of India's leading statesmen a resounding rebuff. Gaunt, distinguished Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") has been the outstanding Indian exponent of all-out Indian effort against Japan (TIME, Nov. 2, et ante...
...House-passed bill (TIME, Dec. 8) to a pulp. The Senate's new bill extended the present sugar act for three years, with no juggling of quotas at all. It increased the subsidy for domestic producers (annual cost to the U.S.: $10,000,000) but contained no rebuff to the offshore producers...
...Hitler has never been confronted with such a mighty combination of states; he has not yet had time to feel the power of this rebuff. We do not doubt that our great anti-Hitler front will rapidly gain strength, that there exists no force which could break this anti-Hitler front. A combination of states has at last been formed against Hitlerism which will find ways and means to erase from the face of the earth the Nazi blot on Europe and the threat it carries to all peoples who love their independence and freedom...
...Chamber's Radical majority administered this rebuff to Argentina's Conservative Acting President for two reasons: 1) he had refused to acknowledge its demand that German Ambassador Baron Edward von Thermann be handed his passport; 2) he ignored Radical clamor for a guarantee that November and December provincial elections be conducted honestly, i.e., under Federal rather than potentially fraudulent provincial supervision. The Radicals' objective was to force an extraordinary session for another try at ratification of the sorely needed loan, then to use the meeting to air these complaints. Ramon Castillo said flatly that no extraordinary session...