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...Ottawa's plush red Senate chamber. Télésphore Damien Bouchard rose to make his maiden speech as a Senator from Quebec Province. His explosive subject: the not-so-latent hostility between French Quebec and the rest of Canada. Said he: "I still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...
...Backer's speech was the more surprising, and perhaps the more significant. This was because his foreign-policy utterances have hitherto been models of political generality; because the Old Guard has fondly regarded him as the most domestic-minded of candidates; because he is from the Midwest, where latent isolationism is supposed to be most deeply rooted. But John Bricker has lately begun to surprise more & more people who have hitherto dismissed him as a personable, amiable man who, though an excellent speaker and administrator, lacks any serious qualifications for the Presidency. Patiently campaigning up & down the land, Bricker...
Uneducated youths with mother fixations are most liable. Indifferent treatment will aggravate latent organic weaknesses, may drive them to commit crimes as a means of escape...
...says Bell, think of the churches "as social clubs . . . smothered by respectability and enervated by timidity ... led chiefly by parsons more intent to please the congregations than to blurt out the disconcerting will of God . . . controlled ... by small-bore laymen fearful lest the Church blow ardently upon the latent fires of spiritual and moral revolution . . . impotent to prevent the war . . . [unable] to stand for prevention of a revengeful and dishonest peace...
...deliverance" from the Bolsheviks. But in the Baltic States the Nazi party went to idiotic lengths to lose friends and alienate people. Fredborg says the Nazis lost the rest of Europe the way they lost the Baltic States and the Ukraine. Where they might have taken advantage of the "latent, or rather instinctive, anti-Bolshevist sentiment still existing in most nations," they systematically outraged whole populations into feeling that Stalin was a brother in arms...