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Harry Hopkins, the President's sallow, stringy right-hand man, flew to London this week on his second secret mission. The flight's objective was as secret as his departure: even White House intimates didn't know Hopkins had gone until he was in the air. The first inquirers were told that Hopkins had gone to England merely to take another look-see for the President. But the same thing had been said at the time of Mission 1; only later had it developed that the real purpose was to find out for sure whether Great Britain...
...defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...
...Glancy, an ex-Du Pont Republican with patriotic urge to lick his terrific job, has an act for people who ask: "How are we doing?" In the top right-hand drawer of his desk is a tight roll of paper six inches wide. To explain this gadget he huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail...
Hopkins' job: executive secretary of the War Cabinet (Secretaries of State, War, Navy and Treasury), which will administer the Lend-Lease Act and spend its $7,000,000,000. Actually the frail Iowan will still be only officially what he has long been unofficially: right-hand man to Franklin Roosevelt...
...English leadership at the present initiatory stages ... is taking the precaution of not losing contact with a suitable harbor for retreat." The supposition was correct. In the face of German superiority in strength, the British leadership-in the person of Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, General WavelPs right-hand man in the winter campaign in Africa-was not so foolish as to be inveigled into the error of Flanders: being drawn into hostile territory only to have communications cut to the rear...