By a Senate vote of 49-to-30, the Ruml plan captured its Bizerte and Tunis. But the Administration was still fighting, and further resistance was due in the House this week. The President might still veto it, with a scorching philippic calculated to produce plenty of ammunition for 1944. In strong marching orders to his Congressional tax leaders this week, he threatened as much.
But in view of the narrow margin (four votes) by which the House had previously rejected the plan, of the plan's overwhelming popular support and of the universal agreement on...
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