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Family Secret. It was this draft which the President issued. Even though it was toned down, the proclamation still created some stir. The President felt obliged to reassure the country that all was well; and that the outlook for peace, he thought, was even improving...
...exception to the Nationalist strategy of evacuation was Mukden (see map), site of the best arsenal in all China. Twice in the last fortnight Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had flown north to confer with General Wei Li-huang, Mukden's commander, and stir him to a more active defense. As the garrison from starving Changchun hacked southward to join the Mukden forces, Wei's columns drove down to retake the port of Yingkow, reopening Mukden to direct sea supply. More of Wei's troops thrust west to relieve Chinhsien...
...Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish-you-were-here dispatches...
...Washington and most of the labor politicians seem to have read the book and out West on the Truman express, the Presidential advisors seem to be following their Bean, stir up a commotion, get out the vote, and pray Henry Wallace is an overrated vote-better...
Beyond that, a campaign was the one way to whip up the faithful party workers, charged with bringing out the party vote. It was a way to stir up interest among the bored and doubtful, to translate votes on a poll into votes in the ballot box. Above all, it was the great chance for any politician to get out where he could see and be seen, where he could make friends and influence voters, where he could work his political pitch at the grassroots level...