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This week the Republican National Committee met in Chicago to lay down the Party policy for 1942. Chairman Joe Martin of Massachusetts, as usual, wanted a do-nothing, say-nothing policy. Ohio's Senator Taft and Illinois' Senator Brooks, both rock-hard Isolationists before Pearl Harbor, wanted no mention of post-war attitudes. Wendell Willkie wanted a clear statement that the Republican Party realizes and accepts the post-war responsibility of the U.S. to the rest of the world...
Thur Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright spoke last week to the men on The Rock - the artillerymen and infantry soldiers of the regular garrison, the Marines sailormen and Army men salvaged from Bataan...
...States as on Corregidor and its satellites (Forts Drum, Hughes and Frank), men took heart. Jonathan Wainwright was no hollow-voiced orator, to fire his people with false hopes. If he said it could be done, maybe it could. In the corridors and subterranean rooms of The Rock, the new arrivals were swiftly put to work making life tough...
...bull's-eye, too. To The Rock's artillerymen, the roads, hills and valleys of Bataan were as familiar as the vein pattern on the backs of their hairy hands. They had the range of every position behind Mariveles. The Jap found that out as battery after battery was smashed and silenced. When he tried to move up more guns, the sharp-eyed observers on The Rock spotted his dust, called for fire, and got it. Bereft of aerial observation, which would have made things much simpler, the men on Corregidor were doing their best...
Most notable of last week's surrealist shows was that of 51-year-old, white-haired German-born Max Ernst, who joined the ism 18 years ago, and has since become its master technician and high priest. Surrealist Ernst depicted a rock-candy fairyland peopled with crawling monsters and dismembered nudes in feathery fur coats...