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There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...
Chennault's resignation came on the heels of a China air force shakeup. Two days before, Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, former chief of the Eastern Air Command in India, had been named commanding general of all U.S. air forces in China. Under him would be both the Fourteenth and the Tenth Airmen suspected that that was the real reason for Claire Chennault's resignation: he could conclude that his superiors regarded him as good enough to build up the China air force and to fight in it in the lean days but not good enough to command...
Salvadoran Army officers tried to topple El Salvador's new up-&-coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
...this did not necessarily mean that Byrnes was going to replace Ed Stettinius, now or later. Washington was only sure that Big Ed's department was in for a shakeup. Jimmy Byrnes might figure in it from the inside, or the outside...
Reform of Production. Almost simultaneously with his governmental shakeup, Generalissimo Chiang launched a sweeping reform of China's war production. A new War Production Board, headed by slight, scholarly Dr. Wong Wen-hao, was charged with coordinating all agencies dealing with production. From the U.S. came an economic mission, headed by ex-WPBoss Donald Nelson. Its job: to help Dr. Wong...