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...capacity for handling foreign problems, he cried: "Was that an extraordinary demonstration of human knowledge . . . when he telephoned Hitler and Mussolini and urged them to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river?" Aides hastened to explain. Mr. Willkie had "misspoken," had meant to say that Mr. Roosevelt had urged a settlement at Munich and the Munich pact "agreed to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river...
...spawned by radiorating Father Coughlin (though Father Coughlin denies any relationship). Harry began to attend Christian Mobilizer meetings as a heckler. At one meeting he heard handsome, Jew-baiting Joseph Ellsberry McWilliams, leader of the Mobilizers, and American Destiny Party candidate for Congress from Yorkville, Manhattan's German settlement. After listening to handsome Joe, who is part Cherokee Indian, with a smattering of formal education (a WPA public-speaking course), Harry decided that heckling was not enough. He hauled McWilliams off the stand. McWilliams' platform might have brought a milder man than Harry to the boiling point...
...Budapest, when news of the settlement became known, a blackout ordered at the height of the tension was suspended...
Died. Lillian D. Wald, 73, famed founder of New York City's Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service; after a long illness; in Westport, Conn. Born of a well-to-do German-Jewish family, Nurse Wald spent most of her life in Manhattan's lower East Side, raised fabulous sums to improve its lot. A militant liberal, she supported women's suffrage, labor movements, pacifism during World War I, Al Smith in 1928, Roosevelt...
Last week Manhattan's Educational Alliance, a 48-year-old East Side settlement house, put on a sidewalk sale of 60 paintings, water colors, linoleum cuts by 40 of its pupils, aged 9 to 15. Priced...