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Leaders McNary and Martin are old hands at bomb-plotting (TIME, July 31). But last week they were engaged in their biggest project. For the dynamiting of Cordell Hull's trade agreements might also blow up the Presidential prospects of Mr. Hull-and he is the only man in sight on whom Democrats of all shades can compromise as a candidate this year...
Then he pressed a buzzer-the one that goes off like a small bomb under Steve Early's desk. Down the colonnade that is called the President's Walk, past the swimming pool and up the elevator, there awaited him a highball, a Christmas tree shiny with colored balls and tinsel, two soap-smelling, be-diapered grandsons-warmth and relief from the crushing responsibility, the solemn loneliness that is a U. S. President's when he has to make a momentous decision...
...fast new twin-motored Messerschmitts were described not only as potent fighters but as ships capable of protecting bombing missions beyond the ordinary range of German pursuits. The whole Helgoland performance, said the Germans, proved the futility of attempting to bomb without fighter escorts-a notable admission since the Germans have used no escorts in their bombing of British Fleet bases...
...skepticism. Neutral judgment awarded a definite edge to the Germans, whose unveiling of the potent Me-110 was taken to presage a further extension of Germany's attack on Britain's trade and food supply. Having failed with submarines and mines, logical next step might be to bomb Britain's docks. Suitable preparation of world opinion for such action-which would inevitably cost gallons of civilian blood-would be the release of aerial photographs emphasizing military objectives in British ports. Such photographs were lately released in quantity by German censors (see cut). As though anticipating raids...
Having furnished a battleground in which Jews could toss grenades at each other, the Christian Century last week dropped an editorial bomb of its own. On the touchiest subject in Christian-Jewish relations it said...