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...further this campaign progresses the more probable it appears that there will never be a clean-cut military surrender of the forces on the Western Front. . . . This . . . will likely mean that a V-E day will come about only by a proclamation on our part rather than by any definite and decisive collapse or surrender of German resistance...
...faster the armies drove through Germany the happier grew the U.S. Senate. By the time Jimmy Byrnes had quit his job as War Mobilizer, after explaining that V-E day was now in sight (see below), Senators in both parties were beaming. Now was the time to face the politically troublesome manpower issue. The Senate faced it by defeating the compromise manpower bill...
...Mobilizer James Francis Byrnes, one of the few men in history who has held a high post in all three branches of the U.S. Government, resigned this week. He had said last summer that he would quit on V-E day. In his letter of resignation to Franklin Roosevelt he wrote: "I think V-E day is not far distant." (He will be succeeded by Loan Administrator Fred Vinson...
...world politics that 1) Canada talked of resuming meat rationing although Canadians knew it would not reduce consumption significantly, and 2) one group of U.S. Administration leaders wanted a drastically reduced civilian food supply, although they knew it would raise howls from U.S. consumers who have looked to V-E day for relaxed rationing, not further cuts...
...expects that military buying will taper off and hoarding ease after Germany quits. Said he: "A month after V-E day the present pinch in cigarets will be over...