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Soft-spoken Alfred Landon, who ran to his own defeat almost without harsh words, had never made a more bitter charge than that. Last week voters, looking backward over the hectic days when they had made their decision between Roosevelt and Willkie-reviewing the arguments, remembering the atmosphere-found that the issues had not prepared them for the crisis they now faced. The campaign itself had gone through cycles of plain-speaking and warning, followed by periods when the emphasis was all on keeping out of war. There had been no time when Wendell Willkie and Franklin Roosevelt had declared...
Under the pavement of bomb-battered St. Paul's Cathedral this week, the skull & bones of ironic John Donne might have leaned backward with a lipless grin. After some 300 years, Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (whose title and magnificent motto are by John Donne), had made Preacher-Poet Donne a bestseller. U. S. customers could not buy a volume of Donne's works for love or money...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...
...Looking backward before looking forward, FORUM found World War I's building picture something less than pretty. Declaration of war found the military departments unprepared. The 32 great cantonments for U. S. soldiers and additions to regular Army barracks had to be wastefully rushed (cost: $273,000,000); the 16 used for drafted men cost twice what they should have. There were bottlenecks in labor and lumber, a shortage of competent foremen, towering bills for overtime. Toward the end, workers were imported from Puerto Rico and the West Indies. Result of all the rush was a set of unsightly...
...sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward about showing his disinterest. Germans perhaps feel the same way, but if they do they are quite generally able to hide it. They marry Latins relatively more frequently than is the case with us, and are careful to choose a girl of good family. The sum and substance of all this...