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Fortnight ago Adolf Hitler had collected 44,952,937 fresh pieces of paper purporting to show that 99% of German voters approve his three great steps toward FREEDOM AND PEACE. That these three steps had rashly violated Germany's most solemn treaty obligations and had thereby unbalanced the peace of Europe seemed to disturb no one inside the Fatherland. Once again Germany had a real Army, with more than half a million men cocked and primed to strike at a minute's notice. Once again a tough, hard-hitting German Navy was in the making. Once again...
...then sitting in committee, His Majesty's Government hastily won (149-to-134) a motion that the Speaker be returned to his chair. It could not, however, prevent Labor's Major Attlee from stampeding through a motion to adjourn a House divided between hilarious laughter and solemn indignation...
...raising revenue. House rules give the sole power to prepare tax bills to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week, therefore, the full Ways & Means Committee sat down to do its constitutional duty. But neither buzzard-bald Chairman Robert L. Doughton nor any of his colleagues were fooled by these solemn delegations of power. They knew that whatever bill they recommended and the House passed would, as always, be rewritten by a captious Senate. This relieved North Carolina's Doughton of much responsibility, more brain work. His chief job was not to make a tax bill but to make haste...
...clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice of Dr. Goebbels, solemn as a priest: "Adolf Hitler is Germany...
...postscript, the lesson contained in Idiot's Delight is that ''by refusing to imitate the Fascists in their . . . hysterical self-worship and psychopathic hatred of others, we may achieve the enjoyment of peaceful life on earth rather than degraded death in the cellar." Happily, the solemn depths of this shopworn text are instinctively bridged by Mr. Sherwood's great gift for high comedy...