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...Gaulle's office came a letter from a Committee of Five, representing Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists, the League for the Rights of Man and the General Confederation of Labor (Confederation Generate du Travail-France's C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...
Against Whom? One other fundamental difficulty, unique to world organization, underlay San Francisco's travail: it had nothing to organize against. The U.S. Constitution probably would not have been adopted had it not provided "for the common defense" against outside enemies. All human groups are held together partly by external pressure. After World War II, the Axis nations would not serve this important purpose for the world at large; their control was reserved to the Big Powers alone. Last week a conference committee decided that the organization would not even have ex-members; the charter would not mention expulsion...
...their own ways and in their own words the countless explorers, trappers, miners, farmers, pilots and rivermen, millers, lumbermen, hydraulic engineers, artists and cowboys echoed him; these books are a record of their joy and travail...
Nazi meanness, cleverness and persistence were proving hard to scotch. The end of England's travail was not yet at hand...
...might be thought that the German armies were sick with the self-distilled poisons of a whole nation in travail, of a nation fed on doubt and defeatism, cramped by material and moral starvation. If that was so, why did the Wehrmacht seem so much sicker in Russia than in Italy and Normandy? Was it that the Russians had diagnosed the sick ness more accurately than the Western Allies, been more willing to take chances exploiting the German weakness...