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Franklin D. Roosevelt had made no postelection appeal for unity in his support, perhaps reserving his views for a major occasion. In a telegram to Also-Ran Roger W. Babson, he had welcomed "cooperation" of all citizens. Also-Ran Wendell Willkie now urged unity, but also alert and vigilant opposition...
...Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later...
Brown has a formidable defensive line and a resourceful set of backfield men. The Bruins started slowly this fall but have begun to pick up momentum in recent weeks. Holy Cross, Yale, and Army are the last three victims of Coach McLaughry's alert squad...
With Mr. Willkie's demand that the opposition be strong, alert, and watchful, these will be general agreement. It would be well, however, if the opposition were also realistic. For, to paraphrase the Republican leader, "only the realistic can be effective, and only the effective can be valuable...
...Alert, healthy. Bob Boyer is a Ford man. Just as he now hopes to mold his plastics into cars, his habits have been molded by constant hobnobbing with Ford...