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...From here out the only problem is fighting," added Harry Hopkins, the President's right-hand man. "It is nonsense to worry about the morale of the people. Now is the time to fight the enemy on land...
Papal Count. Laval's politically ambitious daughter Jose, swarthy as her father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
...long struggle for wartime power in Washington, a team finally emerged last week to take command of U.S. economic warfare over the world: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace and his right-hand man Milo Perkins. Their Board of Economic Warfare was nine months old; but the power given them by the President and the importance of their seats in his cut-down War Cabinet were not only...
Five days later Democrat Franklin Roosevelt professed ignorance of the Flynn speech and its contents. Behind him. at the press conference, as usual, sat his political adviser, Charles Michelson, who is Flynn's $25,000-a-year right-hand man and edits all his speeches. The President said: When the country is at war, we want Congressmen, regardless of party, who will back up the Government of the United States and who have a record of backing up the country in an emergency-regardless of party...
...Japanese also announced that they had appointed as mayor of captive Manila a Filipino big shot: swart, well-educated, luxury-loving Jorge Vargas, long one of President Quezon's right-hand men. Whether this was the first step in the establishment of a Philippine equivalent of a Pétain Government, it was too early to say. For it remains to be seen whether after 44 years of American government Filipino civilians will feel as capable of maintaining the fight for their freedom as Filipinos have so far proved in the army of General MacArthur...