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...When the recess was over, the Blue Army went after the invader like a winning boxer out of his corner. Through the chilly night (the temperature got down to 41°) engineers hurried pontoon bridges across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased...
...charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided to hold public hearings, quiz Republicans Knox and Stimson after the Convention recess...
...recess time. Congress had not yet faced the question of conscription. But the question was very definitely up. A bill, introduced in the Senate by Nebraska's Burke, looked like a whopping big block of raw material for Congress to work on. Its provisions: 1) to register some 40,000,000 males in the U. S. from 18 to 65; 2) those between 21 and 45, selected as needed, to be given eight months' training and kept as a reservoir from which to fill the ranks of a gigantic Army; 3) saved for home defense would be youths...
Still aware of economic emergencies in the U. S. during its closing sessions before recess, Congress passed and sent to the President the $1,160,000,000 Relief Bill and the billion dollar Labor-Federal Security Agency appropriation...
...Cabinet shifts prompted by the near-scandal in the Supply Ministry or a public desire for more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership...