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Something like Information Please, something like Invitation to Learning, Any Questions? has no exact parallel in U.S. radio. But it might have if the U.S. people were ever moved by a hard war to submit, to some suitably entertaining authority, their questions about the world...
When John Lewis unexpectedly gave in, agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, observers wondered why this roaring lion had suddenly begun to coo like a sucking dove. Some suggested a possible reason: Mr. Lewis had good reason to suppose that the arbitration board-U.S. Steel Corp. President Benjamin Fairless, Dr. John R. Steelman, head of the U.S. Conciliation Service, and John L. Lewis himself-would decide in Mr. Lewis' favor...
Brigadier General Wood wrote: "Dear Mr. President, The America First Committee ... asks that you [submit] to Congress a resolution for the declaration of a state of war between the United States and the German Reich...
...Remarkable Cohen. ". . . We submit that the United States Government should not recognize the present German Government . . . until the present German Government demonstrates that it will honor its human obligations." So read a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times, March 27, 1933. It was signed "Frank Cohen and Family, All Native Americans...
...thoroughly characteristic of the men who wish to have a "peace" by arrangement with the Nazis that they, are never able to take a convincing stand against Nazi doctrines, nor against Fascism in general. Their sense of the historic present is so feeble that they can submit to doing Hitler's work in the United States--which is precisely what that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never...