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...already in the divorce courts. The way he chastised those House committees [in his wage-rise speech] is perhaps the worst blunder of its kind since Wilson called those fellows a 'little group of willful men.' If Truman keeps that up he'll split the Democratic Party wider than it has ever been." The Senator, with traditional party optimism, thought that the G.O.P. could win the 1946 elections...
...Hamilton, apparently with his thoughts on the take-it-easy school of Republicans headed by Massachusetts' Joe Martin, wrote recently in Liberty: "It's time ... to abandon a strategy based upon such thoughts as 'We can coast along and win.' 'The Democrats are hopelessly split,' or 'Give them enough rope and they will hang themselves.' We have been coasting-but generally downhill. The Democrats are always split-until election...
...were fed up with the divergences and difficulties of zonal government. But plans for greater centralization were blocked by the French, who still cherished a hope that Germany would be permanently partitioned into several nations. Last week the Russians agreed with the French that the Ruhr area should be split off from Germany and made a separate state, but in principle the Big Three were still united against partition of the rest of the country...
Price of Stupidity. Bevin for the first time openly regretted that Germany had been split into occupation zones, in effect admitted that the system was not working: "It might be said that we were wrong to develop zones. . . . Probably . . . it would have been better if we had not done it." He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home. Telling of how he watched the misery-laden procession of refugees in Berlin, he said: "I felt, my God, that...
...Rockingham Park (N.H.) race track, one day last week, three betters split $25,843 on a daily double. It was Page One news in Boston...