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...fact that if Britain defeats Germany, the U. S. will have no Nazi peril to cope with, was not often pointed to. Only a few people pointed out that the Battle of Britain had not yet been lost. "Further resistance is possible," said Columnist Walter Lippmann, "in a sense in which it was not possible to France." If the British Fleet does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political...
...impatience with politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them. . . . The idea of popular sovereignty is down flat on its back. The tribal king is on the throne again. . . . Republicans have just one issue in this...
...logic of the situation-by declaring that a state of war exists between this country and Germany. Only in this constitutional manner can the energies be massed which are indispensable to the successful prosecution of a program of defense." Signers were not fire-eaters: there was Columnist Frank Kent, Editor George Fort Milton, St. John's College's President Stringfellow Barr. What seemed like the biggest reversal was Walter Millis'. But Mr. Millis, author of the best-selling Road to War that traced the steps to U. S. entry into World War I, had already implied that...
...stagehands (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...
...Scholz uttered a protest once before, when the Traveler, in a syndicated story by Washington Columnist Harlan Miller, hinted that he had tried in vain to crash Washington society. The Traveler apologized. Last week it looked as if Consul Scholz had protested once too often...