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...while last night it looked as if the Gottlieb wing would resign in protest against "obstructionist" tactics on the part of their opponents, but after a brief caucus it was decided to remain in the organization pending the referendum which must be completed in eight days
...term. But the low ebb of public attention to the third-term issue was exemplified by hearings held in Washington on Senator Burke's proposed Constitutional amendment for a single, six-year Presidential term: so meagre was the audience that the hearings were transferred from the marble Senate Caucus room to the cozier Claims Committee room...
...sweltering night last week some 200 Senators and Representatives assembled in secrecy in the Caucus room of the Old House Office Building. In the darkness a film unreeled-without titles, without voices, with few sound effects. The Congressmen saw Nazi tanks push against concrete tank barriers, push them over as if they were so many tombstones. They saw dive bombers fire buildings with incendiary bombs. They saw nearly 100 parachute troops leap from three huge transport planes at an astonishingly low altitude. The film was an official German movie of the invasion of the Lowlands. There were few Germans shown...
...Willkie rolled up his sleeves. Business already knew him as a supersalesman; politics was soon to find it out. He made a speech to well-scrubbed Philadelphia Main Liners at the staid Academy of Music. He ordered fried chicken for G. 0. P. Negroes. He invited himself to a caucus of Kansans, had breakfast with Candidate James's hog-tied Pennsylvanians, and began raiding every delegation in sight, loose or tied...
...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...