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ROME Fillmore Calhoun, TIME'S correspondent in Rome until the "stab-in-the-back...
...manpower problem cannot be solved while most of the officials concerned are trying to stab each other in the back. The Army now wants absolute authority to allocate manpower; yet when the military was given complete control in England, men had to be called back from the battlefronts to work in the factories. The long awaited overall commission to deal with the manpower crisis will not become a reality until the Army, the Navy, Selective Service, the War Manpower Commission, War Production Board, and the President of the United States get together and realize they are fighting the same...
...absence of judgment-passing does not, however, imply a pretense of artificial objectivity. Some of the practices of the Rockefellers and the Hewitts were felonics by any civilized standards. But, not content with mere condemnation, the authors of "The Age of Enterprise" make a stab at explanation. In their eyes, business for almost a century was a lusty young giant trying to conquer a continent. Like most lusty young giants, it managed to stage a few orgiastic riots...
Friends & Enemies. The U.S. political victory was partly, of course, in the bolstered spirits of allies and friends. Britain was jubilant. Even though Russia had hoped for a direct stab in the Nazi back, Russian opinion steadily warmed. Cried the Chinese press: "The turning point has been reached." Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha declared: "We will soon emerge into a better world...
...reaction to the bitter, confused news from the Solomons had undermined faith in the frankness of Army & Navy communiqués (see p. 77). Confidence in Government news slumped to an all-time low; and with it, the pangs of Army & Navy censorship hit home again like a fierce stab of chronic appendicitis...