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...with the U.S. after the war : "The present joint struggle against our common foe-Hitlerite Germany and her allies in Europe-will bring about closer collaboration of our countries in the postwar period, in the interests of general peace." Discreetly tucked away behind the garnishing was a small tough bite. The Soviet still knows when the war really started and who stopped Hitler: "During the entire two years of this stubborn struggle . . . the heaviest burden of effort and sacrifices has fallen upon the Soviet Union...
...caricaturists have excelled lusty, free-swinging Thomas Rowlandson in the lampooning of social manners. Lacking the brutal bite of Hogarth and Goya, he yet thoroughly impaled many of the affectations and stupidities of his period. Prolific "Rowly" was born in London in 1756 of a prosperous merchant father and a French mother. His conventional schooling was followed by a year at the Royal Academy, two years of happy, standard artist's life in Paris (bills footed by a rich French aunt...
...popular today to blame the farce that the League became as a war-prevention body on the fact that it had no teeth. The fact is that it had teeth but refused to bite...
...Harvard have known for a long time that conditions here are bad and getting progressively worse. Up to now we have chosen to bite our lips and keep the tears back like "little soldiers." We have thought that if such outrages as the domestication of the Yard could be kept reasonably quiet and out of the press, we could somehow carry on. But now outraged patience can no longer be muzzled. Frankly, the case has been cracked wide open...
...Opposition. Chief parties who have opposed the Smuts coalition are the Herenigde, New Order and Afrikaner. They do nothing better than bite at each other. Strongest of the three is Dr. Daniel François Malan's Herenigde Party. His candidates are antiwar, antiCommunist, anti-Negro. When Hitler and the Axis were riding high, Malanites cheered for Axis victory; now they say they only want the Union of South Africa to be neutral. But in this campaign Dr. Malan ranted: "It is a hundred times better that England and America should lose and not win the war, because their...