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Well did Winston Churchill know that Premier Mikolajczyk's return to Poland implied a split in the Polish Government in Exile. General Kasimierz Sosnkowski and other London Poles who refused to accept a Russian-dominated Poland were reported to have bought properties in Brazil, where they planned to go into permanent exile. General Bor (indicted by Lublin as a traitor) and his Partisans -the only other organized anti-Russian group-were in even more permanent exile in German prison camps...
...things [said the Argentines] creates divisions that are incompatible with the traditional spirit of brotherhood existing among nations bound by proximity, origin and ideals." The U.S. is not near Argentina, does not share, to the Argentine nationalist mind, the same "origin and ideals." Perhaps some Argentines hoped to split the Hemisphere into Latins v. Anglo-Saxons, shove the U.S. toward the doghouse...
Theme with Variations. Converts to the T have concocted all kinds of pet variations and exclusive trademarks. Columbia's Lou Little has a "split T," Michigan's Fritz Crisler an "unbalanced T," Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa a "part-time T." The Boston (professional) Yanks call theirs the Q.T. Washington's Coach Ralph ("Pest") Welch, who took on a T with man-in-motion last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off-tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense...
Both candidates would soon hear from Democratic Governor John Moses, now slowly recovering from an abdominal operation at Mayo Clinic. Tall, Norwegian-born John Moses, who is popular enough to have won three terms in the State House in a nominally Republican state, hopes the G.O.P. split is just what he needs to slide him into the Senate...
Apostle of Defeat. Over & above the squabble over figures, one fact stood out: there is a widening split between the conservative thinking of Dr. Moulton's Institution and the optimistic approach to the postwar problems of business of such groups as C.E.D. As one bigwig summed up: "Brookings Institution appears to be becoming the modern apostle of defeatism. Its position implies that the ingenuity and initiative of American businessmen and workers, so completely demonstrated during the war, will disappear with the peace. This suggests the defeatism of believers in the mature economy theory...