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...apparently innocent viewpoint comes from the pen of Eugene Lyons, author of "The Red Decade," who, in an open letter in the January issue of the American Mercury, maintains that "American boys are not fighting on scattered fronts...for any practical balance between our democracy and dictatorship of any brand." Lyons and other critics charge that Wallace is more sympathetic to the Russian cause than our own, that in his unbridled enthusiasm for the Kremlin he is forgetting what his "common man" is fighting...
...Shelley were a brand of heavy tank...
There are new kinds of soybeans with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved...
...encourage his brand of democracy "both in England and here," the Chicago Tribune's publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, resolved several weeks ago to cease using nobility titles in the Tribune "wherever the use can be avoided. . . . There may be some slips... . Copyreaders may find their work is as tedious as picking bird shot out of a prairie chicken...
...fighting Smuts and the British Empire. Hertzog carried a Bible and a bandoleer into the Boer War, bravely and cleverly fought the British-as did Smuts. But the Hertzog enmity continued. He voted against the peace at Vereeniging in 1902, devoted the succeeding years to law and his own brand of reform. In the mining camps, the veld farmhouses and the dorps (country towns), he harangued against horse racing, gambling, nightclubs, novels and the British. He advocated no votes, no beer, no property for Negroes. In the army he introduced horsewhipping and quick execution for spies and traitors. At home...