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...hearings (there have already been no less than 17 separate Congressional hearings on rubber). It will listen to no crackpots. It will gather facts, listen to a few men who know, and make recommendations on a war rubber program. On its report-which is not likely to be postponed till after the elections-decisions about nationwide gas rationing and motor transportation are to be based. And if the committee does a good enough job, it may well become the nucleus of the "economic high command" of which all Washington was talking last week...
...remained," writes Moore, "till I felt too conspicuous to stay any longer-a lone man in a crowded hall occupying one among 20 vacant chairs on the floor. . . ." And, finally, Moore was with the Japanese Embassy in Washington through the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941 he had believed he could do nothing to restore Japanese-American relations, and told Ambassador Nomura so. But Nomura insisted that he stay. "We are in the last ditch," he admitted, "but we must continue the struggle anyway...
Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, facing court-martial (but probably not till the war's end) for alleged laxity in his command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, got a job with the Manhattan firm of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., naval designers, doing "special work which the Navy insists must be kept secret...
...those months General MacArthur, beglamored by Bataan, had reached Australia to take over a united command amid the plaudits of a hero-hungry people. Australian spirits rebounded from the Singapore slump to a crest of clamor for men & tools to launch a gigantic offensive northward against the Japanese. Not till the staggering news of the fall of Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded...
...working-class mother with a large family is the real heroine . . . of our civilization. She never stops working from morning till night. She has no remuneration for her work and it is her meals that are cut down first." With these words of his first speech to the House of Lords as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple began to carry out the proposition he had made at Malvern (TIME, Jan 27, 1941) : "It is the business of Lambeth [the Archbishop's residence] to remind Westminster [the Houses of Parliament] of its responsibility...