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First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
...Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist hastily got together...
...convention week, many a pro-Willkie columnist had dropped iffy hesitations, began to clarion that the Party must take Willkie or take a beating. All this was very well for ex-Democrat Willkie; what bred-in-the-bone Republicans wanted was some assurance that he at last was of the true faith. They got their assurance, Wendell Willkie got his accolade from smart, dynamic Helen Reid, whose New York Herald Tribune is a Republican bible. On the convention's fourth day, the Herald Tribune front-paged: "... A man of the people, a Democrat for many years, a Republican...
...have a look at the Republican National Convention. One morning his crusading stepmother, Dorothy Thompson, donated her column in the New York Herald Tribune to Wells Lewis, urged him to speak his mind. Like many another youthful, non-political believer in Wendell Willkie on the eve of balloting, Columnist Lewis was gloomy...
...last week Planter Westrick had become something of a public issue. After the management of the Plaza decided that his further residence there might involve it in the preliminaries of World War III, New York's untiring anti-Nazi Columnist Walter Winchell uncovered him at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison & 76th St.) under the name of Dr. Webster...