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...within the defense area there are three natural landing places: Lingayen Gulf, Batangas Bay, Manila Bay. On a map, Lingayen Gulf looks Manila like a setup-a broad, sheltered stretch of water with good beaches and roads leading directly down to the heart of the defense area at Manila. But there is trouble for an invader here. The water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that...
After this sad record was spread out, FTC officials admitted last week they had "slipped badly," said they would reorganize their legal setup so that no FTC lawyer would ever go to court again with sieve instead of brief. But Mr. Kidder was left to wonder whether he had won anything but a moral victory. Said he: "The FTC [was] about as successful in putting us out of business as they would have been had we not appealed...
While Franklin Roosevelt again revised the U. S. defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...
Thus briefly Franklin Roosevelt laid out his remedial changes for the U. S. defense setup. He left no doubt that, when his reorganization order was published, National Defense would finally have all the authority it has lacked to give it direction and speed, to wipe out confusion in priorities and procurement...
...entire British wartime insurance setup (which already includes Government participation in insurance of all shipping) as it stands today, The Economist of London commented with satisfaction: "As with all other problems of wartime finance, it is wrong to think of compensation for damaged property as a liability that 'the State' . . . can assume or not as it chooses. In wartime the State is the community and the community is the State. . . . The only question is whether [the loss] shall be shared equitably or inequitably. The decision has now been taken to share it equitably...