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...columns to the views of leaders on both sides, and Editor Hutchinson agrees that an overwhelming majority of the Protestant clergy favor aid to Britain and are not opposed to U. S. rearmament. He believes that if all-out aid to Britain must include war, the clergy would split 60% against, 40% for-a very marked change since...
...able to speak with more authority in making clear to the U. S. the importance of the defense of Britain, and he was going at a moment when the professional politicians of the Republican Party were charging him with betrayal, and his party seemed more gravely the split, over the issue of isolation or effective aid to Britain, than at any time since...
...would pass-with perhaps slight modification-by overwhelming majorities, in from three to six weeks. The only way to defeat a bill the President really wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number...
Loony, witty, timed to the split second, the rest of the show is punctuated with the preparation of surgical tortures, presidential statements and bugle blasts from Teddy Roosevelt, and the dark haulage of bodies. Even after the final curtain the fun continues-with a sidesplitting stage call which it would be unfair to the company to describe...
...whose private life was as original as his books. Better known than he cared to be, he announced to his publishers: "I am leaving America to escape to the jungle. ... I have been compared to Hemingway, Goethe, Menuhin, Schnitzler and Mozart. This has left me with not only a split but a hashed personality. I must leave, take myself to the silent forests of Ecuador and Chile, to write another book...