Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of all, asserts Porter Sargent, Britain's campaign had failed to shake U. S. pacifism until Russia last month attacked Finland. Says he: "What an opportunity for propagandists to inflame idealistic emotions! The last straw to bring...
...Porter Sargent seasons his argument with pungent puns. Sample: "It is rumored that, irked by British demands...
...President Roosevelt] is beginning to loathe Lothian." Of Clarence Streit's plan for "Union Now," which Sargent charges is a British scheme for ruling the world, he says: "The unification of the British Empire goes on, led by the great band of deluded peace-loving Americans, prayerfully chanting: 'Lead Kindly Streit Amid Encircling Gloom...
...Sargent keeps himself informed by prodigious reading: 300 books a year, 150 periodicals, twelve confidential news letters. The attic of his ancient white farmhouse in Brookline, Mass, is packed with ten tons of reading matter, his garage with 20 tons more. He goes to his Boston office only three afternoons a week, works constantly at home. He seldom answers the telephone, sometimes lets it ring for hours. He keeps two secretaries busy clipping, summarizing and filing everything suspected of being propaganda...
...descendant of Norman pirates, Porter Sargent is no Anglophobe, believes that "an Englishman, at his best, is the finest creature nature so far has produced, with the exception of a Chinaman at his best." But much as he loves Englishmen, he loves debunking more. Says he: "I don't expect ever to discover Truth, but I do believe that I can uncover un-Truth...