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...footnote to the clamor over the complacency of the American public . . . write the results of a recent Gallup poll into the record. We smug smarties, it seems, have enough gumption to favor total mobilization of both man and woman power for vital production needs. We slothful citizens are ready to sacrifice nonessential jobs, move to other cities, devote evenings and any spare time to the common cause...
Offense v. Defense. Nearly the whole of Britain sided with the Left in its clamor for more action. The latest Gallup Poll showed that 67% of the people believed Britain's "chances will be better this year by developing an offensive warfare," while only 10% voted to remain on the defensive. (The rest did not know...
...Gallup Poll indicated that 66% of full-time employes in all occupations would welcome a 10% pay deduction to buy defense bonds and stamps...
...already busy at war, in uniforms and in the confused civilian beehives of Washington, there had been a conviction that the nation had not yet waked up, that even now people did not understand what the war was going to do to their homes, their businesses. But a Gallup poll indicated that the people's eyes were open: 71% were in favor of the most drastic invasion of U.S. family life yet-drafting men with dependents into military service. Other signs of the transition...
...length he meets repentance head-on in the dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic death...