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...Bostonian Wigglesworth established his heavy-set figure at the reading stand, and began with a familiar Republican charge. "This $56 billion appropriation bill," he said bitterly, "represents a down payment on tragic errors in judgment made at the conference tables of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. It amounts to a ransom for an appeasement policy which this Administration has pursued in Asia ... a mortgage on the life of every American for blunders made . . . [Now] we must ask ourselves if we [can] substitute billions for leadership, bullets for statesmanship...
...authorities in Germany have rounded up 700,000 stolen works of art and returned them to the countries they came from, said the State Department last week. Not included: Hungary's historic crown of St. Stephen, one of the items demanded by Hungarian Reds as ransom for the release of U.S. Businessman Robert Vogeler (TIME, April 30). State's reason for hanging on to the crown, in stiffest diplomatese: the U.S. "does not regard the present juncture as opportune or appropriate...
...through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped up capital to underwrite the revolution. The explosion of the internal-combustion engine woke up slumbering Detroit. The engine put a nation on wheels, tracked the nation with highways, filled the countryside with flashy billboards, hot-dog stands, gas fumes, and, in a climactic outpouring of weapons...
Opening the Tuesday evening session, John Crows Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review and visiting Summer School professor, discussed the relationship of the works of Matthew Arnold to recent work in criticism. Ransom stressed the error of destroying poetry in attempting to reduce it by analysis into its prose equivalent...
There is every reason to believe that the State Department will not pay ransom. But other than stopping all private travel to Czechoslovakia right after Oatis was arrested, it has not yet gone beyond protests and denunciations to help Oatis. The Czech government still has nine embassy officials in Washington, five staffers at the U.N., and it is still selling goods in the U.S. at the rate of $28,000,000 a year...