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...Tommy shares. But last week both boiled. Brokers, their bookkeepers in a quandary, demanded an explanation. At last, straight-lipped, youthful Frederic A. Willis, Tommy gun's vice president and cousin of England's scrappy Prime Minister Winston Churchill, gave his reason for the clandestine payment: "to avoid speculation" in the stock...
...debates and speeches by men of differing views. At Harvard there has never been, and is not now, any lack of honest and penetrating discussion of this subject. Does the League feel that none of this quite serves its own purpose? The organizers of the League were anxious to avoid being branded at the start as a war group. This may remain their intention, but the League as a whole lost a good chance when it shouted down a resolution in favor of keeping American forces in this hemisphere...
...Most of the well informed people whom I met had fatalistic attitude that whatever happens depends on Washington," he said in an interview yesterday. He believes that to avoid the serious civil war which would result if the U. S. supported Almazan, Secretary of State Hull has indicated a slight preference for Camacho, whose party now seems predominant...
...avoid this meaning future we are willing to go far in helping England to win this war. Our national policy today may be summed up as "all aid to England short of war." Yet this is a meaningless slogan, because "aid" can merge imperceptibly into "war." Many of us opposed helping England in the belief that once you set foot on that dangerous path there is no turning back. Already we have progressed from planes and guns to destroyers. Next will be army planes, then the repeal of the embargo on loans to belligerents, then the lifting...
This fall both the Plan E Committee and its opponents are playing their cards more quietly, attempting to avoid the bitter clashes of 1938. With its campaign at present based upon house rallies and speeches before the Rotarians, Kiwanis, and weekly sewing clubs, the Committee will begin a door to door canvass October...