There were left seven states with a poll tax. The piece implicitly hopes that Georgia would set an example for the others to follow. It would not occur, requiring the 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, to accomplish finally the complete eradication of poll taxes.

But, it asks, what if those forces were to lose? Would it mean that the local-option dry counties would be compelled to allow the establishment of State ABC stores for the purpose of controlled sale of alcohol? The piece ventures that it would not be so, and that it was a poor rule which was not reciprocal in application. If the drys were to lose, they would keep in place the system then extant. They thus bore no risk in promulgating the referendum.

The past offered little consistent helpful precedent by which to gauge how things might in fact proceed. Sometimes taking the capital of a war torn country was a significant act which had precipitated surrender; other times, it had little or no impact on the ongoing war. The Continental Army, for instance, continued the fight under General Washington during the Revolution despite the fact that Philadelphia had fallen into the hands of the British in 1777. The same had been true in the War of 1812, after Washington City had been set ablaze by the British in 1814.

So, the piece concludes that whether the Germans would fight on after the fall of Berlin was not susceptible of definitive answer. But, regardless, the end, it believed, would not be far in the offing on the heels of Berlin's capture.

The event, however, would prove the final death knell of the Third Reich. With the Russians pouring into the capital from the East in the last ten days of April, Hitler and Goebbels, fearful of their own propaganda warnings anent the allegedly barbarous and viciously vindictive Russians, decided to commit suicide.

While CIO was pleased with the appointment of Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce, they had not been pleased with the War Labor Board chair William Davis or its public members, Frank Porter Graham and George Taylor. But they had been retained by the President for the duration of the European war. CIO supported the nomination of Archibald MacLeish as Assistant Secretary of State but not the other nominees to the State Department. It had wanted a new Secretary of Labor but Frances Perkins remained in the post against her own will to resign. Attorney General Francis Biddle continued to try to deport West Coast Longshoremen's Union leader Harry Bridges, powerful in the CIO, for his alleged Communist ties. And the President still did not support the Russian stand on Poland, the Administration continuing its support, albeit tepid, for the Polish government-in-exile in London rather than committing fully to the Soviet-favored Polish provisional government established at Lublin and also favored by the CIO.

Thus, the forecast by conservatives that the President would hand the keys to the country over to labor because of the great power wielded by PAC during the election campaign had proved anything but true. The President, indeed, had behaved as if PAC had done little or nothing in the late election.

Senator Robert Taft of Ohio begged to differ with Senator Brewster, finding the argument that to confirm someone they regarded as incompetent to the task of the office because otherwise the process would turn him into a martyr to be quite illogical.

But on Saturday, the Senators were informed through Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota that the Army had changed its mind and wished that the amendment be withdrawn, effectively to leave the administration to General Hershey of Selective Service. Senator Thomas of Utah, chair of the Military Affairs Committee, became upset with the sudden change of policy by the Army and also asked that the Army cease using "back doors" to communicate its desires to the Senate committee at large.

To that, Senator Gurney took exception for his perceiving himself to have been labeled a "back door".

Senator Thomas assured that he was addressing his criticism against the Army and not intending to refer to his colleague as a back door.

Eventually, Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire joined the debate and insisted that it was serving the body right for having neglected to hold public hearings on such an important issue, impacting all men from ages 18 to 45.

The difference, he concludes, was innovation, primarily the determination by the military leaders in Russia to make friends with winter and use it to their advantage. Utilization of ski troops, sledges, fast-moving horse cavalry, white-clad camouflaged soldiers, special lubricants to enable machinery to operate in sub-zero weather, all had combined to allow for this innovation in making the winter a friend. Indeed, the Russians had launched one of their offensives during a blizzard, making it nearly impossible to resist.

Making winter a friend would persist, unfortunately, in a different manner, into the post-war environment, nearly causing the world to be blown to bits by Old Man Winter and his Winter Wind.

Originally, the striking material of matches consisted of white phosphorous. The gases emitted by the substance often poisoned to death or incapacitated the user with its cloud of lethal gas, educates the correspondent. It also was highly flammable and would catch everything else on fire besides that which the user was attempting to light.

Two months later, he was driving a jeep along the front lines when he struck an enemy mine, ejecting him from the vehicle, causing a severe scalp wound. He had been partially bald for some time prior to this accident, but when the scalp wound healed, his hair had grown back evenly. A medic informed that it was a popular remedy for loss of hair—presumably the scalping under controlled circumstances, not the entire scenario involving hitting a land mine while driving a jeep.