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Month ago, an epidemic of sword swallowing started through the instinctively Republican ranks of businessmen. A frequent remark, especially in suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals...
These young Republican businessmen did not enjoy their dilemma. Sword swallowing hurt. So last week in Philadelphia they took the Republican Convention into their own hands, pushed aside the Old Guard, nominated their own candidate, and set about creating a political party of their...
...surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy and 22 years ago a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
...York and Washington, traditionally bad indexes to the national will, was there a panicky agreement that Franklin Roosevelt was the man the hour required. The rest of the U. S., willing to be convinced, remained to be convinced. Judgment was not reserved, it was only suspended-the hanging sword of national opinion...
...International Incident (by Vincent Sheean; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is a first play by the foreign-correspondent author of Personal History and Not Peace But a Sword. It is not much better than a first play by anybody else. A comedy, it starts off with fair color in its cheeks, but gets paler and paler, and ends looking ghastly...