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Between speeches in Manhattan and Boston, President Roosevelt last week spent a day in Washington facing this new international problem. He and the State Department had faced many such situations before. They had developed a routine treatment: a solemn condemnation of the aggression; the freezing of the invaded country's U. S. funds, lest they fall into the hands of the invader. But last week the familiar crisis routine was not re-enacted. The President, who had long professed to be so occupied with foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with...
...flagpole above the portico the blue Presidential flag, with its shield, eagle and white stars, flapped listlessly. Hyde Park House was dark, the big green shutters swung snug to the front windows-from outside, not a crack of light showed from the library. Inside and out, the atmosphere was solemn, expectant, tense...
Baxter's letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill...
...gain momentum, it desperately needs wider support than the Student Union alone can provide. This is no time to be snooty or cynical. If we don't want our guts blasted out in a futile attempt to invade the continent of Europe, the President must be held to his solemn pledge to keep this nation...
Last week six Dallas men, who had registered for the draft, sat down to talk things over. They came to a solemn conclusion: "In no other field has safety engineering been as much neglected as in warfare." To rectify this situation, they organized on the spot the Honorable Order of Cannon Fodder, Ltd. Motto: "Peace, it's wonderful." Attorney Douglas E. Bergman issued a nationwide invitation to all registrants to join, imposed two conditions : 1) they must favor the draft; 2) they must have no political aspirations, since he has already had himself elected national president...