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Grown overconfident after his defy to the British Government last month, Free State President Eamon de Valera lost a trick last week to his Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association...
...Rome and in London statesmen of the West last week began jockeying toward that boycott of Japan for which, in their eyes, President Roosevelt gave the cue when he recognized Nippon's most implacable foe, the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile statements were flying thick & fast over Spellbinder Coughlin's accusation that Alfred Emanuel Smith, foe of the Roosevelt program, had gone with two Catholic bishops to the House of Morgan to arrange a loan for his Empire State Building. Al Smith warmly denied this, adding: "From boyhood I was taught that a Catholic priest was under the divine injunction to 'teach all nations' the word of God. That includes the divine Commandment: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...
...auditorium and has retrenched itself among the committee rooms, the round tables, the conference benches. The man worth while is he who has the gift of driving home a point informally against a barrage of conflicting opinions stabbing through a cigar smoke screen laid down by friend and foe alike. The great issues are not decided before the admiring plaudits of an appreciative audience, but are hashed out behind locked doors, with only press reports reaching the general public...
Abroad, Tokyo was the only capital-except Moscow (see p. 14)-in which U. S.-Russian recognition created any stir. Tokyo papers printed screaming extras. Japanese, who mortally fear any aid the U. S. may give to Russia, their traditional foe, read the extras with pounding pulses. Everything, realists realize, now depends upon the size of credits which the U. S. proceeds to extend to Russia, notorious for her reluctance to pay in cash, her insistence on long rather than short-term credits. As the President went off to Warm Springs (see p. 7), Comrade Litvinoff stayed in Washington...