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...against the Conservatives. His program: 1) to pry the Labor Ministers out of Churchill's coalition Cabinet ("Come out of the Government and fight for your socialist convictions-if you still have them. If you've lost them, get out"); 2) to rub out the shame of Munich ("Anybody who was associated with the Chamberlain Government should be hounded out of public life"); 3) to capture Leslie Hore-Belisha's seat in the House of Commons ("About a year ago Hore-Belisha went into a monastery and came out saying he wanted to go back again...
...Philadelphia last week by a thumping 64,197 majority: short, swart Bernard ("Barney") Samuel, 63, self-made South Philadelphia ward heeler who rose in the Republican machine from doorbell-ringer to mayor. Rejected: sophisticated, billiard-bald Main Liner William C. Bullitt, 52, native of genteel Rittenhouse Square, pre-Munich New Deal Ambassador to the U.S.S.R..and to France...
...tired, taut-eyed Fuhrer and all the lesser fiihrers gathered in a Munich beer cellar to think back to the Putsch that failed just 20 years ago. They had been younger men then, with nothing to lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold...
...Stockholm sources said that a movement for "an independent Danube monarchy" has arisen in Munich...
...will not lack material for oratory if he takes the rostrum on the anniversary of the Munich beer-hall Putsch this week...