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...adage is true that one must go abroad to hear news of home. Stories of big week-ends drift back slowly; and viewed from the calm comfort of sobriety, incidents which were heartbreakingly disappointing are not without their tinges of humour...
...attack on Sir Thomas, rapier-tongued Winston Churchill made the most of an admission that the Cabinet is keeping "fluid" its Rearmament plans. "The Government cannot make up their minds," snorted Mr. Churchill, "and so they decide only to be undecided, resolve only to be irresolute, are adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful but impotent...
Incidents of the Democratic Drift...
...struggle between departments, no question of juris diction. There will be only one ultimate authority in all economic questions Party Comrade Göring." Significance. No immediate change in German economic policy was foreshadowed by this spectacular upping of Göring, but it served to emphasize the gradual drift of Der Führer away from the Party's economic radicals: Dr. Goebbels, Dr. Richard-Walther Darre, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Robert Ley. Leader of the German Labor Front and Herr Wilhelm Keppler, an engineer who has had for three years the peculiar title of "Personal Economic Adviser...
...career distinguished by stanch independence, it was not the first time that blind Senator Gore had lost his job because of opposition to a Democratic President. In 1916-17 he fought Woodrow Wilson's drift toward war, fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill...