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Last week, with the Japanese still stuttering in astonishment over the abrogation of the 1911 treaty (TIME, Feb. 5), Columnist Walter Lippmann took a good look at U. S. Far East policy. What he saw he viewed with alarm. A good part of the responsibility for what he saw he placed squarely on one man: Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...bayous, icicles festooning the palmettos, and sleet blowing through the cracks in Negro cabins, made a snowbound Dixie that no poets praised. Unused to driving in such weather, Southern motorists banged fenders, skidded into telephone poles, stalled in ditches and drifts along the highways. Manhattan Columnist Ward Morehouse, driving across Georgia and South Carolina, reported that abandoned cars lay along the roads all the way. Unused to walking on such streets, Southern pedestrians sprawled and staggered, were late to work and filled the personal columns of their newspapers with accounts of broken shins, sprained backs, bumps and bruises. Negroes...
...moral climate had been feverish and hot, as the country climbed out of the Depression. Last week the atmosphere was very different: a citizenry shagging to the tune of Oh Johnny! refused to take the 1940 Campaign seriously until it knew where Franklin Roosevelt stood. Round-shouldered Columnist Raymond Clapper reported that the Midwest had only the "mildest interest" in the Presidential race. Whirling Washington agreed generally that, while Franklin Roosevelt is evidently preparing to retire, he is a light sleeper and is leaving his bedroom door open...
...Washington, D. C. a Guild local ignored the Board's letter, nominated Wisconsin-born, 37-year-old, brush-lipped Kenneth Crawford, Washington correspondent for the New York Post. In Denver another local went the Washington Guild one better, put up the name of much nominated* Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Other nominations followed thick & fast, included Milton Kaufman, onetime Executive Secretary Jonathan Eddy, Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.)-and even (after the deadline for nomination expired) Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...another humanitarian, part-time head, and the same executives who now run the Guild will continue to run it. Still unsettled last week was the question that agitates numerous Guildsmen outside Manhattan : the Guild's domination by a small clique of New York newspapermen. Likewise unsettled was Columnist Pegler's question: Communism's influence inside the Guild...