Challenge

Last week a U.S. Senator from Kentucky assured his name of a footnotelet in the pages of history. He challenged, at a moment of historic decision, the basic Allied strategy of the war, and received an unprecedented reply delivered in person by the Prime Minister of Great Brittain before a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

Senator Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler was answered in such historic fashion because he was not speaking only for himself. The Prime Minister and the Senator both knew that Chandler was speaking for a substantial segment of...

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