Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt, as President of the United States, heard news of a matter about which plain citizens could only speculate. It was word of the powerful British Fleet (see p. 16). Like an echo blurring as it bounded back, that historic whisper turned into rumors that did not quite make sense, statements that did not hang together, fragmentary speculation whose point people could not quite catch. And it was drowned out by the clamorous news from Philadelphia, where on the sixth ballot of the 22nd Republican National Convention, Wendell Willkie of Indiana was nominated for President...
...deliver a well-phrased attack on the New Deal, except among the inarticulate amateurs of the galleries, who could find their voice only to shout "We want Willkie!" And ever since 1932, hostility to Roosevelt has been a potent U. S. political force-but it had not sent plain citizens out buttonholing their fellows, swallowing their self-consciousness, selling buttons naming their candidate, circulating petitions with an embarrassed ardor...
Farther south, 50,000 troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
...Institute of Public Affairs meeting in Charlottesville, Va. last fortnight a thinking soldier talked plain to some think ing laymen when General Sherman Miles confessed that in the past six weeks bright military minds had painfully shed many a long-held preconception, proceeded to analyze the Battle of Flanders and emerged with a big-time military man's explanation of the success of Germany's modern war machine - and what could be done about it. Said the U. S. Army's Assistant Chief of Staff (G2 - Intelligence) and son of the late, great Nelson A. Miles...
...rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung by Josef Marais and his Bushveld band. Part Huguenot, part Dutch and a lot of just plain cowboy is the music of the Transvaal. Sarie Marais, the song of a Boer girl waiting in the mealies (maize fields) by the old thorn tree for her lover to come back from fighting the English, should fall pleasantly on ears fond of U. S. Westerns and Spanish-American war ballads...