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Truth was that the President had finally bent a sympathetic ear, two years late, to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch's idea of an overall freezing of wage levels, profit levels, price levels. Mr. Roosevelt talked it over with his Congressional leaders, with his family at the White House, with Price Boss Leon Henderson. Then he hinted at it to the press, with an ear cocked for the national reaction...
Said one elder statesman in Washington last week: "When the Japs land in San Francisco, there will be a real shake-up." Meanwhile the war effort pooped and boggled along. Washington was gloomy over defeats in the field, and wretched over its own confusion. The press was angry. Things that happened...
...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
Britons, however, were in a mood for sacrifices, and the vigorous New Statesman & Nation urged Whitehall to make the most of it: "A honeymoon period of harmony between Government and the public is before us. It may last for another week, it may last triumphantly for months. . . . Everywhere people are . . . prepared for a change in the whole national system, for the State to take over the mines and any inefficient industry, for the introduction of siege economics...
...days after the cartoon appeared, the Tribune printed, under a Washington dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...