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...sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...unimaginable distances. To Wordsworthians, Wordsworth at his best is the greatest English practitioner, after Milton, of that literary form to which Matthew Arnold gave the classic definition: "Now poetry is nothing less than the most perfect speech of man, that in which he comes nearest to being able to utter the truth...
...damn his own people in compliant agreement with the incalculable hatred that they have kindled . . . that too would hardly befit one of German origin. For anyone who was born a German does have something in common with German destiny and German guilt. . . . The truths that one tries to utter about one's people can only be the product of self-examination...
Last week, in utter bafflement, the Navy called off its search. A board of inquiry began to sift far-fetched theories and farther-fetched rumors. A peacetime mystery was as unfathomable as any the war had produced...
...Italy. He has two sons, about 22 and 25, and a daughter about the same age. They are what we would call the university student type in America, with an added maturity which is common to Europeans of this particular class. We were discussing politics when, to my utter amazement, the older boy-asked just how one went about voting for candidates for public office and how a government was chosen under a democratic system...