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...citizen of a democracy could be happy about some of the pathetic situations which these orders created. For every potential fifth columnist, hundreds of innocent aliens would suffer. In industrial Pittsburg, near San Francisco, old Italian women who had lived in the same houses for 30 years, who had sons & daughters working in Pittsburgh factories, prayed at Mass that they would not have to leave home...
Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos. The usually mild-mannered Columnist Raymond Clapper set the pace. Said he: "Half the trouble around [OCD] could be got rid of if the President would haul [Mrs. Roosevelt] out of the place . . . There is hesitation in Congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the President. But this is public business and very important public business. ... It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. How can you have...
...Tess Harding, China-born, Swiss-schooled daughter of a U.S. diplomat, Miss Hepburn is easily recognizable in her role of highfalutin' female newspaper columnist. Spoiled, selfish, intellectual, well-informed, too busy to be feminine, she thinks nothing of advocating (by radio) the abolition of baseball for the duration of the war. She is promptly dusted off by another columnist: Sam Craig (Mr. Tracy), sportswriter, of her own paper. The tone of his piece, which calls her "the Calamity Jane of the fast international set," is less politely echoed by one of his colleagues: "Women should be kept illiterate...
Foreign Secretary Eden tried to wriggle out of his faux pas by saying that he fully realized that the "essence of the [Nazi] creed and the essence of German practice for the last 100 years is that they are aggressive animals." Daily Mail Columnist Hannen Swaffer jumped on this with the question: "When did Eden find this out? On Tuesday when criticism appeared? On Wednesday when M.P.s of all parties began to murmur...
Vaguer was his answer to a more crucial question: What about Congress, which is not subject to censorship? Censor Price classified as "official" the Congressional Record and committee proceedings, but warned against word-of-mouth information from individual Congressmen. (Columnist Frank Kent has suggested that Congressmen's immunity to censorship may put them back into the news spotlight as they have not been for many years...