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...educated young man. However, when he learned the purpose of our visit-to get his reaction to the penetration of his lines-he quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously was a trouble shooter. The captain spoke at great length about the crimes of Fascism, and said the whole purpose of the Yugoslav invasion of Venezia Giulia was to liberate his people. After a lot of evasion he did comment that having Allied troops behind his front lines constituted "a very poor military situation...
...published in the overseas edition, but printed in their 18 domestic editions, is the C.I.O. News's slyest attempt at sugarcoating: a comic strip called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed...
...puffy, spectacled man with a nervous tic in the left cheek and a shock of unruly grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
...Wang had offered what he called "important concessions." They had been formulated by himself and T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan and the Central Government's crack trouble shooter. To meet Yenan's demand for a democratic coalition government, Chungking was ready to give the Communists legal status and minority posts in the National Defense Council and Executive Yuan. To meet Yenan's demand for an all-party constitutional convention, Chungking offered to convoke an all-party meeting to consider "military and political unification pending a national congress." But when Chungking asked Yenan...
This week, the War Department arranged to send brusque, bustling White House Secretary Steve Early to SHAEF as trouble shooter. Franklin Roosevelt's press handyman, whose ancestors include Confederate General Jubal Early, was a staff member on World War I's famed Stars & Stripes, used to be a newspaperman himself...