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...will get no help from Britain, with whom the Finns are at war, nor from Washington. Finland must try to deal with Moscow, hoping that reasonable terms can be arranged. According to some reports last week, the Finnish Cabinet of re-elected President Risto Ryti was due for a shakeup, perhaps installing Juho Paasikivi, who negotiated the brief peace with Russia...
After last summer's wasting days of turmoil, Franklin Roosevelt had stepped in with some spectacular reorganizations-appointment of Byrnes and Jeffers, of McNutt and Wickard, a shakeup of WPB. Now, even inside the Administration, observers agreed that this, too, had been a stopgap. The sound effects had been terrific, the visual impression of Olympian lightnings spectacular-but nothing had really been changed. The era of good cheer had run its course; some nasty trouble brewed. The only consolation for plain citizens was that, despite the procrastination and the palace revolutions, the Army somehow grew and the munitions somehow...
...more likely explanation was that the Germans had ordered the shakeup. Mussolini obviously followed Germany's example last week when he ordered the conscription of all men between the ages of 14 and 70, and women between 14 and 60, to work in war industries...
...curiosity high of 896,000 to 301,000 daily and 402,000 Sunday circulation; printed 22,362,199 lines of news, almost 8,000,000 lines of advertising (its entrenched rival, the Chicago Tribune, had 19,000,000 lines of advertising in the same period); undergone a thorough shakeup that got rid of many an ex-Hearstling in editorial executive jobs; run up an estimated deficit of $3,000,000. Editorially the Sun has also come out flatly against rape and the Tribune...
...Many an uneasy eye watched the White House for hints and signs of what was coming. At a press conference, a newsman asked Paul McNutt if he expected to stay manpower director; he answered frankly, "I don't know." Fanny Perkins had not even heard of the proposed shakeup until newsmen told her. A spokesman for Harold Ickes insisted that his boss was perfectly satisfied in Interior...