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...Detroit last week, 2,850 F.A.A. members, striking for union recognition, left eleven war plants without foremen. Intense, young (32) F.A.A. President Robert H. Keys, lashing out in all directions, blamed the strike on 1) stubborn plant management, 2) the Government, 3) a hostile National Association of Manufacturers. Pleading the case for his foremen, President Keys said: "All they ask is an avenue for negotiation. . . ." Explained Foreman H. J. Finn, whose son was reported missing in the Pacific last July: "I am fighting for a principle and my son was fighting for a principle, too. Both are important...
...than ever on a job hopefully christened "operation strangle." If Cannon's tacticians spoke medical terminology they might have called it "arteriotomy," for they were quite literally cutting the German supply arteries. His Mitchells, Marauders, Warhawks and Thunderbolts were trying, very forcefully, to bleed Marshal Kesselring's stubborn divisions to death by severing - and keeping severed - the marshal's difficult north-south rail communications...
...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...
Against all this stood a stubborn fact of power politics: Greece is in the British sphere and Moscow knows it. The Kremlin can plan to cast a spell on Yugoslavia, but it cannot hope to manage Greece-unless the British so misplay their cards as to force the Greeks to join a Balkan Federation, cued from Moscow...
...become, and the more of a symbol he becomes in France. Almost everyone agrees that if Roosevelt tempered his obstinacy on the question of De Gaulle, the chances for a successful liberation of France would be considerably improved. It is Roosevelt much more than Churchill who has remained stubborn about De Gaulle, but out of loyalty Churchill has supported the President...