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These had been Mr. Willkie's Farley, Moley, Frankfurter, Rosenman, Howe, Hull, Wallace, Woodin and Tugwell; his braintrust and his backers, working for him-at least at first-against his will. Neither Davenport nor Root knew anything practical about winning votes and influencing people, but they did have faith, and it nearly burned them...
...week's end Mr. Hull sent Mr. Biddle to London, where the Polish Government had finally come to earth...
First Targets. Airfields of the Coastal Command, oil stores along the Thames estuary, aircraft factories, the docks of London, Harwich and Hull were preliminary targets for Nazi night raiders. Incendiary bombs were showered down after demolition charges to start fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...
...Harvard, meanwhile, undergraduates and alumni began their commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation "dangerous folly" at an alumni gathering, to Class Orator Tudor Gardiner (a Porcellian) as he declared: "America must not again be dragged into the anarchy that is Europe...
Last week, after a confab between Secretary Hull and Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky, a corner of this embargo was raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...