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Dissension has simmered in the Tyrol ever since the southern half was cut away from the Austrian empire at the peace tables of 1919 and given to Italy. The deal clearly violated Wilsonian principles of self-determination, since the overwhelming majority of Tyroleans did, and still do, speak German and consider themselves Austrian. Ever since Attila, invaders have swooped down into Italy through the Brenner Pass; but the annexation allowed the Italians to establish a defense line at the crest of the pass itself...
...Though a Wilsonian and Rooseveltian Democrat, Bowles was an early member of the isolationist America First Committee, as were many other New Dealers. His eagerness for public service got him at length into Washington, where he was F.D.R.'s price administrator and Truman's boss of the Office of Economic Stabilization. At war's end he fought successfully to keep controls on wages and prices in the name of an orderly transition to a peacetime economy; as a result, he amassed one army of bitter conservative enemies and another of happy liberal disciples. After one earnest...
...requires his readers to wear hip boots. Says "Scotty" Reston the only Timesman in Washington who calls Krock by his first name: "It's not your style or my style, but it is Arthur's." As such, it is generally worth the effort of wading through. For Wilsonian Democrat Arthur Krock, who has known and reported on every President since William Howard Taft, remains a calm perceptive voice in U.S. political reporting...
...system, in 1874 dashed off a note in Graham to Graham. For the rest of his life, Wilson kept improving his Graham to a degree where present historians almost wished for a shorthand Rosetta stone that would provide a key for translating Wilson's ultra-Graham into good Wilsonian English. Last week in Washington, anachronistic Graham Expert Clifford Gehman, 84, had all but cracked the Wilsonian cipher after more than a year's effort. As proof of his success, Gehman displayed a cogent translation of Wilson's acceptance speech for the 1912 presidential nomination. Said Gehman wryly...
Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...