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Britain's sage Manchester Guardian commented: "The fuss in the U.S. is a warning to everybody that a great many Americans will not be in a rational or reasonable state of mind until the November election is over-if even then. Had an American public figure been credited with unfortunate remarks of the same order about ourselves, his explanation would have been quickly accepted. They order things differently in the U.S. . . . It does make life a trifle difficult, especially in an election year...
...Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian and Russian, leaned back and laughed while Italian resentment mounted against Britain...
When Leopold Stokowski is not making curious things happen, they are often being made to happen to him. Last week the picturesque maestro's Mexican tour continued in an ornate fuss & feathers of insult and apology. He had already scared the wits out of Oaxaca with a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with offstage sound effects of cannonading (TIME, May 29). Last week it was something else...
This lack of fuss was in inverse proportion to the significance of the agreement. Under it, the two nations, which control some 90% of the world's oil, laid down the broad policy which they hope to follow to: 1) stabilize oil markets in the postwar world; 2) provide for the orderly development, mainly by U.S. and British companies, of Middle East oil properties...
...recent fuss made by FBI and local agencies in rounding up the polygamists of Short Creek, Ariz, and sundry other points in these parts seems out of proportion with the evil done by these biologically overproductive ladies and gentlemen...