Word: alienating
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...President went the powers of a war dictator when Congress re-enacted a version of Woodrow Wilson's World War I powers, empowering him to reorganize all Government departments (except the General Accounting Office); establish censorship; take over all alien property (about $7,000,000,000 worth); and to award war contracts without competitive bidding...
...Willkie's reasons for taking the case: the rights of all naturalized U.S. citizens are at stake; only Congress-not the courts-has the right to determine whether an alien or naturalized citizen should be disqualified from citizenship on account of his political beliefs...
...vein of "The Little Foxes," is a series, but not a climax, of frustrated family plottings. Although long, the story has more complications than it can particularize, and is somewhat burdened by direct exposition. Both Mr. Broadwater and Mr. Clurman, however, can realize the words and moods of alien characters with perceptive imagination...
Gloom. The evidence of national pessimism, a trait entirely alien to the U.S., is exceptionally well documented. It is a gloom that is not due to fear that the Allies will lose the war-72.5% expect them to win it (only 7.0% actually expect Hitler to win). But after the war 69.9% expect that people will have to work harder, 60.5% that pay will be lower, 43.2% that prices will be higher, 60.7% that there will be a great deal of unemployment...
...Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper, a careful reporter with good sources, described the expected manifesto as "directed against the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter. . . . [The U.S.] would be described as remote from, and completely alien to, the European problem. Obviously this would be aimed at providing ammunition for non-interventionist and isolationist sentiment...