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...deep-southern mill town a half-mad anarchist, a Negro doctor desperate to free his race, a girl who loves music, and a quiet, watchful cafe owner all come to share a mystical admiration for deaf-mute John Singer. Out of Singer's stunned face and his silence, each of the four constructs an image of absolute understanding, a godlike sounding board for prayerlike confessions. The fact that Singer himself is coolly puzzled by them, is himself even more piteously dependent than they, escapes them. The fact that no one of them can understand the other they scarcely realize...
Last week, as Hitler struck into The Netherlands and Belgium, Isolationists fell almost mute. And in the momentary silence U. S. public opinion began to find tongue...
...Walter Millis described it, America's trip down the road to World War I was something like a blind deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...Neither mute nor inglorious was the Younger Milton. A mountainous figure of a man, with a boy's face and a scholar's brain, he was more interested in politics than in daily journalism. He wrote books (The Age of Hate, The Eve of Conflict), contributed to leftist magazines like The Nation and The New Republic, lectured, presided over round-table discussions, was chairman of a Southern committee to study lynching. Long an admirer of Nebraska's Senator George Norris, Milton plugged for the Tennessee Valley Authority when it was no more than a Utopian gleam...
...policing the conquered country belongs to the Elite Guard's Death's Head Brigade, S. S. men whose main job heretofore has been to run concentration camps in Germany. The obituary notices of the S. S. newsorgan Das Schwarze Korps bear mute testimony that hundreds of these Germans have been picked off by Polish snipers. Reprisals have taken the form of wholesale executions of Poles...