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With such deep cleavage in policy, it is no wonder that America ended the ten year period engaged, in a war for which she was woefully unprepared. But in the final analysis, the entire lack of unity, as explained by the embracing foreword, was based on the gap between the foresight of the Executive and the relative caution of popular opinion. As totalitarian brutality slowly converted the American public and molded it behind its Administration, American diplomacy began to ring with the note of determination. Finally, following Pearl Harbor, isolationism, in its original shape, died, and "Peace...
...debts and mortgages. Washington hopes to cut the amount of purchasable civilian goods and services back to $75 billion. This leaves some $18 billion rolling around loose, and nothing to spend it on-money which may cheerfully be used to break price ceilings. Economists call this the inflationary gap; to Jimmy Byrnes it must seem less a gap than a yawning and terrible crevasse...
John Kieran had long admired Reporter Robert (Bob) Davis, the evening Sun's columnist who roamed the globe and wrote what he pleased. Bob Davis' death three months ago left a gap in the Sun's pages which Kieran felt he could fill...
Wisconsin citizens, not a little miffed to learn their Constitution has a gap in it, waited to find out what will be what...
...unanimity with which he had been chosen was synthetic; the harmony which he is supposed to stand for will be, at best, ersatz. For Mr. Spangler knew, as Willkie knew and as the Chicago Tribune knew, that no mere middle-course champion of compromise could ever span the gap within the party: between the Willkie wing and the extreme isolationist symbolized by Schroeder and Colonel McCormick's Tribune...