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Said the Governor: "There have been increasing signs . . . that our newspapers are being denied the right to print all the news. Important matters have repeatedly been withheld for months . . . the shooting down of 23 transport planes . . . what really happened in Teheran . . . the disquieting evidence of [United Nations] disunity. . . . One such incident might be charged to blunder; two such incidents begin to lay the unpleasant suspicion of Administration policy. People cannot fight a war with blinders on their eyes...
Details on the LSM's use and operation were carefully withheld, its construction only sketchily described: it is over 200 ft. long, somewhere between big and small tank-landing vessels...
...Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin Roosevelt and his brain-trusters. All are men of the Old South, which has been shaken to its foundation by Franklin Roosevelt's economic experiments and his "coddling" of Labor and the Negro...
...abdication caught Allied political advisers with their brief cases down. There was no plan, either political or military, to turn such a development to account. Hasty conferences followed with some of the King's and the Marshal's emissaries. The armistice was signed, but its announcement was withheld to coincide with a proposed airborne invasion of Rome and the beachhead landing at Salerno. The Germans moved quickly. They prevented the airborne venture by disarming vastly superior numbers of Italians to whom the Allies had looked for help, then concentrated everything available at Salerno...
Trie Committee had made its original report on the Navy's tank-lighter program on Aug. 5, 1942. It withheld the report at Navy request. It was made public by the Committee last week, "first, because its publication was delayed originally solely at the request of the Navy Department . . . and, second, because the committee believes that procurement officials . . . should bear constantly in mind the fact that improper decisions will be brought to the attention of Congress...