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...suit of olive drab is popularly supposed to turn U.S. comrades in arms into brothers under the skin. That it frequently does nothing of the sort gives Novelist Joe David (Stars in My Crown) Brown the chance to mount a kind of two-front war novel in which the rasp of conflicting personalities can be heard above the whine of shells. The psychological combat in Kings Go Forth is sometimes emotionally blurred, though deeply felt, but the scenes of military combat flare across the pages as vividly as tracers stabbing the night...
...still owns 31 newspapers. By buying the Graphic for an undisclosed amount, Rothermere gets a free hand to do what he wants with the paper, may drop as many as 1,000 staffers from the Graphic's payroll. With the Graphic in hand, Lord Rothermere can wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ. 991,092), which is owned by Lord Camrose, Kemsley's brother (TIME, Aug. 4). To wage his war, Rothermere can tone down his Daily Mail to lure readers from the Telegraph...
...main job was working out requirements for a one-front as opposed to a two-front war, and the translation of these requirements into aircraft production schedules. After the fall of Germany my job was to work out a plan for the demobilization of the aircraft industry after Japan fell... to prevent the contraction of that industry to such a low point that it could not be quickly and adequately expanded in time for a World War III." Baker presented his final plan to Congress early in 1946 where "it was received with interest and quietly tucked away in some...
...Like two opposing field commanders discussing a truce, Bolivian Ambassador Ricardo Martinez Vargas and RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington held an important conference in Washington last week. After four weeks of polite parleying, they came to terms: Bolivia agreed in principle to sign a 30-day contract to sell her tin to the U.S. at $1.12 a lb., subject to the approval of the big Bolivian tin producers. The terms added up to a notable victory for Symington, who has been fighting a two-front war for lower prices for tin and other raw materials. One front is against Bolivia...
...hunch that the Chinese Communists would not strike. Now they wonder whether the U.S. plans to involve itself still deeper against the Chinese on a hunch that Russia will not honor its mutual defense treaty with China. They wonder whether U.S. industrial capacity will be able to support a two-front war against China on the one side and Russia, in possession of the Ruhr, on the other...