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...censor-ridden Germany seeped news last week of a 4,000-word letter sent to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler last month, in which ten responsible pastors of the German Evangelical Protestant Church daringly protested against the entire credo and technique of the National Socialist Party. This remarkable document, phrased with an air of winning deference, indicted: 1) Nazi concentration camps; 2) the Nazi espionage system within the country; 3 ) the extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school...
Most difficult problem in producing the Democratic Platform of 1936 was to make that document appear to be the legitimate offspring of the Democratic National Convention. When Franklin Roosevelt's chosen platform-maker, Senator Robert Wagner of New York, arrived last week in Philadelphia, he solemnly assured inquirers that he did not bring with him a platform ready-made at the White House. Some days earlier Democratic Senators had been shown the draft of the platform, but Senator Wagner had either left it behind in Washington or tactfully destroyed it. All that he brought to Philadelphia, hidden under...
...better political document was the Democratic platform than its Republican counterpart of 1936, more literate, more persuasive. Brief, vigorous, and general, speaking in terms not of legislative plans but of glorious ideals was the platform Franklin Roosevelt had drafted. It recalled the Declaration of Independence by six times sonorously repeating "We hold this truth to be self-evident. . . ." It invoked the spirit of Roosevelt I by promising to end "the activities of malefactors of great wealth. . . ." Its ringing eloquence was reiterated in the chorus: "The farmer has been returned to the road to freedom and prosperity. We will keep...
...revolt against such a decision, would have us scrap the Constitution or the Court, or both. This extreme solution would doubtlessly create more new problems than it would solve old ones. Still, the wheels of the Constitution are creaking badly. Until "due process" is pried out of the document into which it once crept when no one was watching, both Congress and the legislatures will continue to be irresponsible debating societies, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court carefully carry the key to their padded cell...
...World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume I of Sarah Gertrude Millin's General Smuts is no campaign document blocked out with a whitewash brush but a sympathetic biography of a Big Boer...