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...Most colorful of the Bataan defenders is the all-American 31st Infantry, under leathery Colonel Charles L. Steel. Of all Colonel Steel's "Foreign Legion characters," the men reserved a top place for 2nd Lieutenant John Flynn, recently commissioned after 33 years of Army service. A sad-eyed Mr. Chips, Flynn delights his men by mixing tobacco juice and contempt for Jap marksmanship on scouting trips into the brush...
...last week a regular reader of the Tribune could see with half an eye that Colonel McCormick's blood pressure was going up fast. Four days before the "treason" editorial appeared, the Tribune ran this head on Democratic Chairman Edward J. Flynn's demand for a Democratic Congress: A SCHEME TO WRECK THE REPUBLIC...
Pewter-haired, gum-champing Ed Flynn started it. Said he: ". . . No misfortune except a major military defeat could befall this country to the extent involved in the election of a Congress hostile to the President. ... It is now plain that the Republican Party is not so much interested in winning the war as ... in controlling the House of Representatives...
Homespun, placid Joe Martin got mad. He took Ed Flynn's remarks as an invitation to battle. Republican Leader Wendell Willkie took them as a tragedy. In a Syracuse, N.Y. speech Republican Willkie said that the "greatest disaster" that could befall America now would be for her to be conducted down "the route of pure partisanship...
Five days later Democrat Franklin Roosevelt professed ignorance of the Flynn speech and its contents. Behind him. at the press conference, as usual, sat his political adviser, Charles Michelson, who is Flynn's $25,000-a-year right-hand man and edits all his speeches. The President said: When the country is at war, we want Congressmen, regardless of party, who will back up the Government of the United States and who have a record of backing up the country in an emergency-regardless of party...