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...year and a half, 500 detectors, 4,800 transmitting and receiving sets were turned out, installed in ships, helped lick U-boats. Corman filled the last of $2,000,000 worth of orders on V-E...
...V-E day or soon after, he argues, the British were able to persuade U.S. "reactionaries" in the State Department and elsewhere to back British imperial interests against Russia. The Soviets became alarmed and rang down the Iron Curtain. Thinks Elliott: the "only two nations whose security interests clash today" are Britain and Russia. Instead of arbitrating these differences, "as Father had always been careful to do," Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes have gone over to the British. Observer Roosevelt adds a footnote: "'The biggest thing,' Father commented [after Teheran], 'was in making clear to Stalin that...
Through the bewildering confusions of 13 postwar months the U.S. people had watched the progress of their onetime ally, Russia, and they had come to a conclusion. From a zenith of popularity just after V-E day, Russia had dropped to a point where most U.S. citizens had decided that she was no longer a friend but an antagonist...
...correspondent (London Daily Herald, Boston Globe), says that she held firm, too. Although ready to grant from the start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...
...State Department, more decisively than at any time since V-E day, showed its realization that the U.S. must show a strong hand or lose its leadership in the postwar world...