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...Italian will fight just as bravely and as honorably as any man who fights for justice. I know this to be true because I am of that blood. I am 22 and await eagerly my draft call to help defend America...
Last week General Wood's committee-the antithesis of William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies-had 60,000 members, eleven local chapters and an organization drive that was going like a house afire. In Washington, national committee members included such strange company as socially conscientious Kathryn Lewis (daughter of John L.) and socially conspicuous Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Just what the organization was after remained obscure: it was easier to see what it was against than what it was for. And what the committee was against was getting the U. S. into...
...this reading, James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" seems the best of an excellent field, it may not be necessary to defend the choice. The little man, now the indomitable sea dog, Captain Mitty, now the great surgeon, and overshoes, but even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood...
...States pay more attention to the "Primary causes and the ultimate of objectives of the war in Europe before we become further involved in it," was expressed yesterday by William Ernest Hocking '01, professor of Psychology, in an Open Letter to William Allen White, Chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
...easily be frightened into participation in a foreign war. When six months ago France fell and the fall of Britain seemed no less imminent than it does now, the American people refused to be governed by such fears. Now that we are in a better position to defend ourselves by our own efforts, we are even less likely to be stampeded into a different decision by the same fears. The repudiation of campaign pelages by our rulers under such circumstances would not strengthen our powers of defense. If no better reason for entering a foreign war can be found...