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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week he made his first full-scale assault on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy. His audience was the New York Herald Tribune's, annual forum, which the President had declined to address. Tom Dewey reiterated his approval of Dumbarton Oaks "because in this matter we have followed the American way of doing things-[leaving] it to the State Department where it belongs." But, said Dewey, "to the extent that we leave our international relations to the personal, secret diplomacy of the President, our efforts to achieve a lasting peace will fail. In many directions today our foreign...
...clear that the Germans feared the First Army's strength most of all the forces they faced in the west. They warned themselves of U.S. concentrations "for a grand-scale assault" aimed at the Cologne plain east of Geilenkirchen (twelve miles north of Aachen). To dispose his forces to meet it, the enemy shifted his dwindling reserves under the protection of swarms of mobile antiaircraft guns. Still Allied airmen in complete command of the air took a heavy toll of men & material...
Arrogant, autocratic but a resourceful, daring tactician, he restored the art of bluff and ambush to modern big-scale war. In one day he lured 300 British tanks into almost total destruction. In another day he overwhelmed the British stronghold of Tobruk. He tied up much of Britain's military strength and leaders for nearly two years and at his peak he stood at El Alamein, 65 miles from Alexandria...
Share the Pie. Last week WPB unreservedly promised: the West will get an ample share of the overall cutbacks in war production after V-E day. In the first year after Germany quits, and if Japan is still fighting, the rising scale of cutbacks for the U.S. will average 32% (maximum: 40%). For the West Coast, the average will be "something more" than 25%. The lower percentage is due to the hard fact that the bulk of the weapons still needed to fight Japan (i.e., B-29 and B-32 bombers) are being made in the West. Furthermore...
...constant reliance upon large-scale Government spending . . . with heavier taxes, deficits . . . and perhaps increased competition with private business is not consistent with . . . our competitive system. Public works must be supplementary to the effort of the people...