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...ultramodern, highly mobile" establishment built around air power. He proposed a force of 5,000 combat planes standing always ready on airfields, manned and maintained by 400,000 men, backed by a reserve of 3,000 planes partly manned by National Guardsmen. The Army, he said, with a sidewise slap at Army control of the air forces, had not yet seen fit to submit the proposal...
Labor got a sharp slap across the face last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans' big, bluff shipbuilder, announced that he would close down his three plants, sell them to the highest bidder, and farm out his fat $40,000,000 peacetime contracts to other manufacturers. Reason: labor strife that never seemed...
...Cordial, Friendly." Russia followed its slap at Michael with a pat for Groza. In Moscow the Rumanian Premier and his Government received an elaborate endorsement. Welcomed to the capital on a scale customarily reserved for top diplomatic personages, the pleased, impressed Premier intoned: "I am happy that for the first time I tread the Moscow earth. Light comes from the east...
Last week the Paris papers, right and left, printed President Truman's slap at them. But, thoroughly polite and docile, not one cracked back...
...feuding factions of Spain's opposition-in-exile, enormously heartened by the Big Three's slap at Franco (TIME, Aug.13), took a long stride down the road to Madrid. In Mexico City, now the capital of the Spanish emigration, all major parties last week agreed to recognize ex-Cortes President Diego Martinez Barrio as Provisional President of the Republic of Spain...