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...created a fiveman board of review with veto power over Henderson's actions. The House insisted on keeping an inflationary three-point formula for farm prices, even added a parity scheme for fish. Finally passed by a 224-161 vote, the bill was now little more than a scrap of paper...
...clear that the board was still far from the scrap heap. Mechanics were already at work stripping out some old parts (such as the board's fact-finding function), putting in some new ones. Predictions were that the board would be recreated by statute (not, as originally, by a Presidential wave of the wand), that it would be backed up by another tribunal which would step in, if mediation failed, to arbitrate...
...board's chairman, William Hammatt Davis, was not ready for the scrap heap, either. Despite the bazoos blown at him by various critics, the chunky, tenacious mediator had made a phenomenal record by peaceably unraveling the most tangled wrangles. With his belief that reasonable men in reasonable discussion can always find a way out, Mr. Davis was one of the brightest hopes the U.S. had in the murky field of industrial disputes. When the new mediation machinery was set up, observers felt reasonably sure that Mr. Davis would have his hand on the throttle...
Equally important is the Libyan campaign from the Axis viewpoint, although Berlin has so far refused to admit that it is anything more than a local scrap. The Italians, however, have been much franker about the matter in confessing that the future of Italy depends upon the outcome in Africa. Strategically based planes could destroy Italian cities by night bombing expeditions and with the aid of the British navy they can send the Italian fleet off to Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing...
After six years of slumber Canada's opposition party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...