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Both the Ridgway and Williams dissents were inevitable expressions of the views of their respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...
...equating of eggs with human lives is one of Gaylord's follies which provides Viereck with a second chance to push over a tottering strawman. The "bloody-minded professors" who introduced communism into this country prove the dangers of moral relativism...
Henlein, after four hours' conference with Hitler, returned to his home in the village of As. Three days later one fact seemed obvious: the "strawman" had been instructed to reject Plan No. 3, to compromise on nothing, to hold out for full, unqualified Sudeten autonomy. The Czech Cabinet then met with President Benes and drafted its "last" offer to which a response was expected from Dictator Hitler this week in one of his numerous speeches at the Nazi Party Congress in Nurnberg...
...Strawman August but the liver creatures of Author Hamsun's fancy will most please U. S. readers: the sinister witch Aase, the bibulous druggist and his crony, the hotelkeeper; the postmaster's flirtatious wife, the village swains, masons. et al. Readers to whom Scandinavian literature is synonymous with gloom will find themselves agreeably surprised into many a chuckle over the mock courtship of Druggist Holm and Fru Hagen; the rival evangelists and their war over the Holy Ghost; the hit-or-miss conversations between a visiting Englishman and the squire's sister (carried on largely...
BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...