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Molotov Borsch. None of this had been missed by Premier Viacheslav Molotov when he rose to address the Supreme Council of the U. S. S. R. in Moscow. His speech was an interesting borsch whose recipe was two parts passivity to one part provocation. Russia must "refrain from participating in the war between the big European powers." In fact, Comrade Molotov was all for peace -on Germany's terms and with Russia keeping her slice of Poland. On the other hand he charged the Allies with trying to use the Finnish war as "a starting point for war against...
...dignity disturbed at a hearing of a Judiciary sub-committee when hefty Negro Communist Benjamin J. Davis Jr., a graduate of Harvard Law School, delivered a 15-minute tirade against the opponents of the Anti-Lynching Bill. Vice President Garner, said he, paraphrasing a familiar refrain, was an "evil old labor baiter." "Shameful" were the tactics of Committee Member Senator Tom Connally (Dem. Tex.). While Davis bellowed, the apopletic committee glared, jumped up & down, threatened to throw the witness out. Said Senator Van Nuys (Dem. Ind.), co-author of the bill: "You have done more harm than good...
...Newspapermen are notoriously bad prophets.* But when the mood is on them, they cannot refrain from prophesying. Last week two veteran political reporters, Jim Hagerty of the New York Times and Edwin S. ("Ned") McIntosh of the New York Herald Tribune, thought they had found the dark horse of the Republican Convention in short, swart Joseph William Martin Jr., able minority leader of the House of Representatives. From Topeka, Kans., where Nominee Alf Landon performed the same function in 1936, Joe Martin keynoted at the famed Republican Kansas Day rally. Messrs. Hagerty & McIntosh reported that Republican leaders from all over...
Because Roman Catholics believe that theirs is the one & only True Church, they are discouraged from attending heretical or schismatic religious services-i.e., any but their own. Many Roman bishops restrain their priests, and refrain themselves, from joining interfaith gatherings, where their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night...
Definitions of the word 'propaganda" varied on specific points considerably. Some stated that it was anything written or spoken. Others declared propaganda was anything intended to get people to do or to refrain from doing something...