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...rotten spot at the core of the dispute has been the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile, whose hard work has been overshadowed by a stubborn desire to pin down their country to the pre-war status quo. This attitude stands in sharp contrast to that of Norway's Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold, who last week in a message to his people outlined post-war reconstruction plans, and added: "The present Government does not do this with any thought that it is to retain power and look after the administration of Norway after the liberation...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
...shaggy Wendell Willkie, the man who walks like a bear, was caught last week in a crushing bear trap. The springs and teeth had been fashioned out of his own party's machinery. He had fallen into it through his own stubborn disregard for danger signs. The result was that Wendell Willkie. while making his greatest impact on public life, was in jeopardy of being immobilized as a public figure...
Congress is a stubborn body, proud of its rights. Yet the 77th signed away many of its powers to the President. It watched him delegate the powers to administrators and bureaucrats, then fought with the bureaucrats. Its Democrats sniped at Franklin Roosevelt and he at Congress; they cursed him when he failed to help them at election time. Only a few of its members saw war at first hand (notably Minnesota's Melvin Maas, Texas' Lyndon Johnson); but all held a veto power over the progress...
Swales knew something of Harold Clarke's problems: his mistress, Lily, her baby and pretty, stubborn Mrs. Clarke. When Clarke called at Swales's shabby boarding house in Temperance Street, Swales noticed his impatience and tried to listen carefully. He could do with a few shillings. Said Clarke: "I am not talking in shillings, but in pounds." Clarke then outlined a plan...