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...wife Vice President, that he needed some sort of militia or storm-trooper organization. The President himself drew up a confidential "Workers' Defense Plan" to "defend the government in the event of military action against it." Five thousand descamisados of "absolute confidence" were enrolled, divided into "shock troop" detachments, "special mission" units and "reserves...
...doubtful. The U.S. is better off in its tankers; the booming oil industry has had 77 built since the war; 26 others now on order will bring the total to 477 v. 384 before the war. But the greatest lack is passenger ships, which could be converted to troop transports for war. Prewar, the U.S. had 162 of these; now it has only...
...across the state to speak for their man. Pennsylvania's big Senator Jim Duff, Ford Foundation President Paul Hoffman, Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge and Kansas Senator Frank Carlson were out on the campaign trail. Television's Tex McCrary was roaming the mountains and valleys with a troop of entertainers, which included Tony Lavelli, onetime Yale basketball star (he shoots baskets at rallies), Maestro Fred Waring, Entertainers Les Paul & Mary Ford. Tex's wife, Jinx Falkenburg, was there ("as a wife & mother") to decorate the scene...
What does it prove then, save that any active and loud-spoken individual or group will always find enough beings to make a troop which will follow blindly for various motives...
Problem: how to allocate Germany's contribution to the European Army. Britain insisted that West Germany must keep contributing toward the cost of British troops in Europe, as she now does under the occupation. But West Germans consider such a payment another proof of inequality. Solution: all of Germany's financial contribution will go into the European Army treasury; British troop costs will come out of the common kitty...