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...Presidential C-54 lurched through stormy weather, sat down at Kansas City behind a sister ship that carried reporters and secret servicemen. Up the ramp of the "Sacred Cow" ran daughter Mary Margaret; her "Hi, Daddy!" rang out above the low roar of the engines...
Industrialists, bogged down with orders, begged for manpower. Servicemen, eager to work, begged to be demobilized. To bosses and workers it seemed a simple issue: Britain needed the goods and they were ready to make them. Then why the delays? This week the thorny, interlocking problems of reconversion and demobilization confronted the new British Government with its first real home-front crisis...
...California-born, Jap-blooded: one Iva Toguri, a 29-year-old graduate of the University of California. She said she had left Los Angeles "to see a sick aunt" in Japan in July 1941, was stranded in Tokyo after Pearl Harbor. She was surprised at her popularity among U.S. servicemen (who liked to listen to her program of old jukebox favorites, which were intended to make G.I.s home sick) and amazed that anyone would be lieve she had done her native U.S. wrong: "I didn't think I was doing anything dis loyal." According to Iva, two other girls...
...themselves to make the whole job an illustration of teamwork among the men of many services and of several nations. And to give these objectives their just emotional weight, they took on still another hard assignment: to tell everything in terms of "the really important" people-the ordinary servicemen...
...This month, with an eye toward the 1948 Olympics, Red Army athletes will compete against British, French and U.S. servicemen in track & field at Berlin's Sports Palatz Stadium...