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...show had cost only one-third ($50,000) of what it cost in 1940. After six days & nights of uneventful horse-trading in a small, ovenlike buff and gilt hotel ballroom, the Resolutions Committee had patched together a 1944 G.O.P. platform-no more ambiguous and no more forthright than most-which neither offended nor excited the 1,057 delegates. For the first time in G.O.P. convention history, no one bothered to submit a minority platform report or to offer suggestions from the floor...
...playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...hungers and doubts of people everywhere found expression in the keen, forthright London Observer: "It is no idle curiosity that looks for the fuller pattern of peace. It is for peace that our men will shortly die. ... It is for peace that the deaths and pains of Europe's peoples cry out. And peace is not just the end of fighting; it is a way of living together...
Anthony Eden's forthright assurances obviously did not yet apply in practice. Apparently, they had been spoken for the record...
...Forthright General Pearkes promptly shouldered full responsibility. Said he: "I asked Triquet to come. ... I see nothing humiliating in trying to do my duty in encouraging others to do theirs. I did not win the Victoria Cross by keeping my boots clean at Passchendaele nor has any other officer won that decoration by leaving things to the sergeant major...