The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana Books Chatter The Home Front By William E. Bohn i AST Thursday night ? had the fun of presiding at the final ????? ot Ra«1 School, annual Open-House Wee* for Authors...
...And then Miss-FisheTmight secure effective help...
...we think in terms of a front through Burma and into China...
...AustriaB aad Swedish actors are playing the Russian delegation...
...By George Fort Milton...
...Tbe *^ National Association of Manufacturers is being currently torn by "theoretical differences...
...only a few years ago too leftist to stay >? the Laner party...
...That sounds like more of the old mistakes...
...The book should corrvince every reader that what we must bring about is more real democracy, based on farts, the avoidance of wishful thinking, and the mandatory spreading out of responsibility We accept conscription in wartime as proper in a democracy, because it spreads out the duty of defending one's country to all- the people who live in it and benefit from its democracy...
...I learn that two-thirds of all broadcasts to the men over-seas have to do with sports.- Does that give us a fair clue to the interests of men m uniform...
...Roosevelt two years ago or so "¦napped* "Copperhead...
...But The Dati# Worker and The New- Umtmes tkwae professional mourners for the Spanish democracy which they did so much behind the line* to destroy, have not yet written a word about the case...
...So the obvious thing to do is to start with *.u.k., the war and the <lepression and work back to George Washington »nd Christopher Columbus...
...as does Perry, that "moral relativism ie a confused idea the genesis of which belongs to the pathology of tae bumaa mind...
...same t.uie, one entertains the possibility that other religion* maybe equally vaiid...
...It was the job of people in l-esppnsibility to investigate rumors of this sort, and then to adapt their strategy to the possibility that they were true...
...His stories about the I.us*tun CP...
...And where propaganda reigns, there is no literature, nor any social science...
...Crass discussions practically always pussyfoot current controversies...
...1: ·' Right and Wrong By JOSEPH RATNER o.vb Sias, is...
...1AM-ES T. FARRELL hat...
...Following editorials in the Baltimore A fro-Am trim ? and elsewhere...
...Milton's work is seriously speaking a very sorry affair...
...And interest in history must be excited in precisely the same way as interest in cooking or athletics...
...Jhe last of these concluded a recent argument with these words: shall not be complacent about the status of American history until it is so presented that pupils in schools and students in college take it not because they- are required to do so but because they recognize its value and find in it the satisfactions which familiarity with magnificent achievements and an understanding of our traditions and our role in the' modern world should bring...
...Totalitarianism is nothing other than thoroughgoing absolutism- it is not moral relativism—the gospel of live and let live—but moral absolutism that is pathological...
...Last month -The New ?????* called Ignazio SJone, the great Italiwi noveliet...
...The fault belongs to those Who were responsible for building and defending Singapore...
...William Green, David Dubiaaky have already asked for American intervention, and the liberal press, following The New Leader's opening shots, is picking up the cause...
...Genera...
...were not calculated to please those Comrudes of the Press who stood at rapt attention wherr Willkie made his entrance and applauded madly before he began On the whole, most of the newspapermen present felt that Wendell Wiirkie has grown signuVaatty i* the last two years, and is not to be sold short...
...the impulse of Northern and Southern support, and the types and social bases of opposition-groups, are ail beyond the book's scope...
...Apparently - it wasn't cricket for an enemy to strike at Singapore from anywhere but hi front, where the big naval guns could flatten out any attacker, and so- England, did not even debate the possibility of an attack from behind...
...This is eapecialry evident in his chapter "A Bridge to Russia...
...They just grinned...
...When students get-down to business that is really hot, the tithe ? up and ihe instructor Is exhausted...
...A good course in American history ought to help a fellow vote...
...Lois de Lafayette Washburn, friend of Lixzy Dining first exposed by New Leader correspondents, has been subpoenaed to appear before the Washington grand jury investigating propaganda...
...Little...
...or thereabouts, he went to Germany and registered for one of the first Courses in modern literature ever »ffteredV The lectures were learned and languid—and at the end of semester, the ponderous pedagogue had matte his way clear down to Archbishop Ulfitas (A.D.'311-383...
...It is an Associated Press pic tlire and, it presents an athletic young aoldSer sprawled in the shade ef a truck reading a book bokuy lettered: Plant for a Better Worte the name bf the author, Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, is plainly visible on the cover...
...But surely Professor Perry does not bejiev-e they are...
...What she is saying is that history should be tamed on its head...
...Lack of Strategy At Singapore By EDWARD HUNTER STRATEGY AT SINGAPORE...
...Dr...
...The book tells how Singapore came into being as a naval base, from the time it first was discussed, and thus presents us with a shocking and disgraceful picture of hemming and hawing and back-washing and wishful thinking...
...So-awd-so- wiM be another "Clement VtUlandigham" (the Civil War peace-Democrat from Ohio)—feature-writers- will make much of the historical coincidence which has the N. Y. Daily New* as a vicious, obstructionist sheet in two wain—pundits will start asking whether- we are moving towards another "General Order No...
...Over pur dead bodies, came the response from General Foods...
...Then follows this note, which may or may not have received, the approval of the editorial staff of the Neun: "The volume fe one of the most popular with the men who go to the mobile library when they're not chasing Rommel's men," That's what ?? Kues says, and that journal would, of course, never, never *llajie...
...That should be an earful for heated legislators who want to solve the problem by passing a law...
...as Willkie feel* It is simply that the President was slapping Dartan huaself the next morning, and for Willkie to precede him at the Heruid Trihwe Forum would look awfully silly By the way, WiHkte's *#»th*» record press conference at the Newspaper Guild meeting the other right was a most impressive performance...
...The author concludes that we must win back Singapore to win this war, and that "it remains the most vital key to the control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
...First he was at the back of the room and later on up front...
...Both Stephen Vincent Benet and C»W Van Doren have co.idemned "the vicious censorship " The news of the Farrell ban was first made public in this space a month ago...
...384 pages...
...Hours and credits are no help to citiienship...
...Start Now Qfld Work Sack ?QU don't really...
...Frank Kingdon has resigned as President off the...
...THE' title of this book is unintentionally misleading...
...There were Guenter Reimanh, Alfred Bingham...
...I recall a story that was one toht me by President James Angell, for many years the head of the University ef Michigan...
...It is a book singularly without virtues...
...Berlin has substituted "Negroes" for "darkies," add:og "I should never have released it had I known the epithet was objectionable...
...Whew Mrs...
...It should have been no surprise...
...Call...
...which regularly calls for the .tailing of liberals and left-wingers who are not Kremlin style, has got a new purge idea The Daily Murker this week sniped at The New Leader's story of the star-chamber postal ban of The MtUtant...
...If moral relativism is pathological Uten the democratic creed einst be-also...
...He contends that "right" and "wrong" are absolutes aad that -judgments about then ear...
...Our average history course is not quite as bad as all that...
...campaign to save tbe Uvea of Largo Caballero and other Spanish Republicans now in Franco s hands it making headway Labor-leaders Phil Murray...
...The facts 01 vtber days mean something only if you know the facts of our owh day first...
...The ultimate oasis of "moral relativism" is precisely that respect for men as individual* which Perry rightly says is "the -fundament*: article of democracy...
...Just as soon as ccc- takes into account tor reaching a judgment "the peculiar habits and conditions"—of countries or radrvichials—one passes out of the fanatical realm of absolutism into tbe humane and tolerant realm of relativism...
...statuesque Ann Hardms is the pluasp Mrs Dsvies, British...
...The fault is not that of the book, although it could have been improved by bringing up this point...
...The fellow who gives such a course is usually half asleep, and the students are seldom roused to genuine wakefulness by anything but the bell which" announces the end of a period...
...Th> reminds me of a war photograph which I glimpsed in my un-favorite paper, the Daily New...
...But some labor insiders put part of the blame for the muddle on union leaders who...
...With only four or five exceptions," she remarks, "the few existing American history courses for adults offer a survey of the development of some specified period...
...First, his study is geaved^io a shamelessly uncritical, sfo-gaaeeringr internet in the past...
...communistic ' and capitalistic societies...
...Onhr a superficial thinker would jump to the conclusion that the lesson this teaches is that we need less democracy, however...
...2.50...
...p»ke icu> week in behalf of "patitnce' and "moderation"—the official Doiky Herald, at one time too right-wag for Tripne...
...ot Ra«1 School, annual Open-House Wee* for Authors the subject was "Agenda for a Post-War World...
...Times do change D"|»«rtment: Sir Stafford Crippa...
...There is no lack of moral conviction Concerning the worthwhilenee* of tolerance to be found in Perry's writing...
...The June 22 patriots write that Socialists "are enemies of America ansi -hould be treated as *ueh...
...Irony apart, however, Mr...
...Milton...
...Gentlewomait-irom Connecticut, issued blotters ia her campaign with the slogan— "America's Woman of Destiny " The worriers over Adwsal Jean ("temporary expedient") Darias are putting on new wrinkles now that Darlan has announced formation of a general secretariat for economic affairs in North Africa...
...But not having done so, the least they could have doue would ¦ have been to put a few guns toward Singapore's back door...
...And the scene...
...He wanted the right answers to the right questions, and he would be satisfied with nothing less...
...We got started on...
...Easy History By MELVIN J. LASKt ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE FtFVH COA¦UMK...
...It is the absolutist who always knows that what is meat for him is meat for the other t'etlow Coo —even if it kills the other fellow...
...Perry writes: "it is almost impossible, despite a large capacity tor self -eon traduction, that men should bold a definite moral con-viction and at the sane time harbor the idea that the opposite conviction is...
...That afternoon Jacques Do.' at Fascist ????;?-?.??*> strolled down a boulevard—the AP reports four broken ribs, a fractured arm...
...His remarks were sharp and straight and amazingly frank...
...definite as judgments in mathematics...
...Last week...
...Significantly, in the introduction by Capt...
...The title should be: "Lack of Strategy at Siaga-pore...
...3.50...
...This scheme would have a shocking effect in high school* and ??11???8...
...Both points are, I believe, urusoaod...
...Finally, even a* a chronicle of War Years dissension, it is uneven,- poorly conceived, weakly written, inadequate m a doten ways...
...suggest how hastily written it was...
...These remarks:-are not made without sonic misgivings on the reviewer's part, for George Fort Milton is a competent and widely respected historian and a newspaperman...
...Agaiif,-*the book represents- no4 really substantial effort of historical workmanship and talent...
...rV* British Fascists are suing Hesbert Morrison, Home Secretary, far damages for treatment accordsd to then...
...There seems to be room for only one mo'-e good one—and that is...
...If you look at a map...
...She proposes to tic the teaching in with "the questions men and women face every dav...
...you will find that Singapore is just the appendage to an enormous flank...
...So bow the former professor ef English is teaching tbe former music critic of the N. ? Herald Tribune the fine art of anti-aircraft gunnery...
...But that isn't what I started to say...
...History simply isn't history-without criticism, analysis, and ideas...
...I wUl guarantee that the reKistrtttoo^ieJh*: Wlvlt.ci»3ses demoted to the study of our country would soon jump well beyond on...
...The only solution ? to start with the war and the depression and the New Deal and work backward toward Lincoln and Jackson and the Revolution...
...Much cd^ha-most interesting material is " secondary {viz.,- Harry- Williams' fact-crammed study of the Radical*), and almost all of it can be found in briefer, more useful form elsewhere...
...dig up...
...Negroes have bten protesting the Irving Berlin-Bing Crosby song-hit "Abraham" from the film Holidaw Inn...
...We leant from Richard Armour, out light-versifier now a first Heuteaant in the army, that Francis D. Perkins turned up in his squad th...
...It is amazing to think now we managed to get along without it all these- years...
...right...
...Jo...
...attacked him this week for "conservatism" and "inaction...
...Now you may know, whet ??» ail about—this is Juat the book you were waiting for— indispensable reading — a clarion-call to militant -democracy...
...Some insiders in Wasamgtea say there is no love lost between Willkie and the White Hoiiaa...
...After all, a youth in the ninth grade or a college sophomore is a human animal like the rest of us...
...History U Not Autopsy moment of that" session with authors I shall long remember " with amusement^ To Professor Cochran, who is known as'aft exceptionally vftalhhd up-to-the-minute teacher of history, ah irate...
...Kingdon suddenly announced Us support for Bennett in the recent election the same week an article appeared under his name favoring the ALP's Dean Atfange...
...I don't want to be a nUb sknce," he whispered, "but I have a reason for acting this "we* l!m going into the Army next week, and I want to get the answer* When the soldiers talk, I want to know what to say...
...I3WHEN Mr...
...CACTION-FIGHTS are not the propertv of left-wingers...
...about the war...
...no one will be sorry...
...But the production is going ahead in Hollywood...
...in detail here and there (radical E. D. Baker was not a GeneraJ but a Colonel, etc., etc...
...dre?«ed uj> as delegates from California...
...hard put by hostile public opinion, loved the cymes (viz...
...You know those courses: "The Development of Foreign Policy from, 1789 to 179©," or "The Extension, of the Frontier from 1871 to 1875...
...Is it sei Is it really impossible to be firmly ceavinced that what is meat for me is poison for the other fellow (and vice-versa...
...Not insistently go along the lines of our past errors...
...I think Miss Fisher is closer to the secret that Professor Hunt...
...Walter Duranty on tbe Moscow Trials...
...Professor Perry's argument for- "intrinsic" or "absolute" moral values ia theoreticaliy tee moat important part of hie hook...
...The historical character of the Civil War...
...arc ? s new book for the Conatitu-tionai Educational League, out next week, will blast The New Leader for its exposes of fascisJt activities...
...QeaaJWt Mecely is the star witness, ciaimiag he saw it all happen from his ecu window, . . . Claire Boothe Luce, now the Hon...
...week...
...are deemed offensive...
...Foods has charged that the NAM is practicaliiy coming out in favor of "sociai revolution...
...The film is going ahead, with everything jus* right—but the /acts, . Sam Gtaftoa cracked last Saturday that the best puniehmeat for the Lavals would be to have them walk dowa a Paris stveet aloo...
...Here, in the coldly realistic matter of a naval base, do we have the worst and the most dangerous aspects of our democratic life exposed to...
...About the only thing in its favor is that so-called "timeliness:" But one wonders if there is really ever a "time" for tbe kind of gebrauch-history which succeeds in illuminating neither the past -nor the present...
...This attack from the rear, as the Japanese ultimately munched it so successfully, suiprised our hidebound, protocol-bound generals, admirals and cabinet ministers, but they only reflected the hesitancies, confusion and wishful thinking of the publics concerned Everybody at Singapore and in the Malaya Peninsula, however, knew that there were rumors that the Japanese were planning to strike from hehiiid, exactly in tbe way they did...
...about a fact unless you sec where it fits in, how it will be of use...
...All through the evening I had the voluntary assistance of a tall, dark and dashing young...
...Mrs...
...They muat've joined the union to see the world, . Paul V. McNutt is on his way out of the manpower picture...
...o» all sides wUl be bidding ue to remember *Ex parte Miliigen" (the case in which the Supreme- Court, after »he war-, intervened to restore civil liberty...
...Maybe the Com inters doesn't think the Spwvsa question a particularly important owe at the moment...
...Tbe CP...
...Union, for Democratic Action...
...Roosevelt the other week stepped off the bomber in London, and the reporters noted-that it was George Fort Milton's Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column that she carried under her arm, oar little drama of the Birth of a Thnely Book came to a climax...
...Vanguard...
...The goods offered are necessarily those which the public will take...
...THE political boom far General MacArthur has quieted dowa * somewhat, but there is no real future to the whole affair, and the Daily News-Times Herald propagandists know it...
...3**' (AurneideV drastic move ot military censorship)—liberals and conservatives...
...Some readers may be aware of a moral in all this, and they may not be so very far from wrong —for this age of- war offers many pitfalls to the writer: the historian no lees* than the poet, novelist and critic...
...at a rather promi...
...valid...
...Tiocs moral relativism destroy the foundatioa of movale...
...This brings me to a survey which has recently been made, by the New York Adult Education Council...
...nent American,figure, some aiert literary agent, with a finger en some publisher's pulse, knew .the time had come for, among other things, a new Lincoln volume, with a fifth-column twisst...
...Inside and Out By Matthew Low I Matthew Low ? pinch-hitting thxs —» pffMWP...
...and Lee Pressman...
...By 'Eugene H. Miller...
...You caa easily see- how difficult, and even impossible, life would become . , . without Mr...
...like Haas Speier's intelligent essay on the ftfth-cokm» ?? hietory...
...ut whenever the talk threatened to run off the main topic, he was up like a shot and at me...
...In this book, be has written ma ay eloquent passages in, explanation and praise of tolerance, of respect for individual differences...
...The situation is simply that MacArthur is a divorced man: his present wrf* previously divorced Lionel Atwill—and that makes him, in convention parlance, just not "available " The World-Telegram was lamenting this week—Herbert Hoover was not < honen to bead the Relief administration...
...The American Council oil Public Affaire...
...It should give people theAayof toe land about trade unions, war, fascism, depressions...
...prison...
...The term "fifth column" itseif is stale and meaningless, and the author might have read with- profit something...
...Certainly it bears no relation to the body of Milton's- earlier and not --unimportant contribu-ttons"-{a valuable study of Stephen Douglas, a provocative book-on Andrew Johnson...
...classes for adult here in New York-, only a fraction of ono per cent study history...
...and came out for a simila' suppression of Norman Thomas...
...a«rth(OCT.-ey*rteeJrtk ???-thing from history...
...If you want to know why Singapore was lost, this book will tell you, if you read it in conjunction with some book about what actually took place during the attack, as in Cecil Brown's indignant opus, for example...
...be aa...
...Fantastic as it sounds, here is a book published in 1942 that traces in minutest detail the politics and the strategy (so-called) that created the naval base at Singapore, and nowhere do we find any discussion of the possibility that it could be attacked from the rear, instead of in front...
...Bingham was hopeful, Reimann was skeptical, and the audience had a good time...
...and that the split with Roosevelt will come out into the opor seen...
...To disagree with Perry's theory of moral valnes is not to disagree with his general conclusion...
...N«*v, of course you ear...
...These scholars couldn't give'it, wouldn't give it, didn't want to give it...
...Teachers of history would have to have ideas and convictions...
...his theory would require him to he...
...Too bad the British did not teach the Japanese how to play-cricket...
...U7HAT about Wendell WiUkie...
...Now that so many liberals have trotted out the old slosh about The Great Experiment, cynicism is no longer useful The CP is still gentle with father Scott Nearing, but file John Scott has been excommunicated as a "dirty Trotskyite...
...German...
...Instructors bred in such a somnolent atsnosphere- give evening courses for subway-riders...
...Regarding the difference hetweer...
...It turns out that of the thousands who crowd t*o...
...a little background on all: those curious references you are goh*g to hear- and see more and more of in the press and cm theJair...
...Who was set the darky >free, Abraham...
...But whatever his- batting-average in the past, he has now at least thiee-strikes called against him...
...The lastt chapters in the books are the dullest...
...The NAM is plumping for a national' food-a*d-hea!th program, and is ready to take a few propaganda-socks at snappy, two-minute flat breakfasts, etc...
...W. D. Puleston, of the U. S. Navy, retired, he writes of "a future in which the United States, acting jointly with the United Nations, can and will reconstruct a world in which law and order will be presented by naval and air power, operating from securedly-held overseas bases...
...Heading the secretariat is R. A. Penard, old-line reactionary spokesman in French Afric...
...Professors Nevins and McKee oi Columbia and Professor Hunt <rf Teachers College have been talking things over in the Times...
...by unanimous city room opinion, Herbert L. Mathews' on Irtdra...
...and to win the peace...
...At the end, everyone seemed to agree that not all the' German people should be shot or sterilized...
...one tye lost...
...b the fabulously wealthy ambuss · ? is shown taking along a coupie...
...Davies' order...
...There must be eaual responsibilities' in peacetime, equally mandatory, and one of these is "the responsibility of finding out what is happening...
...a "•Trotskyite" and a "Fascist" and cracked that it was hard to see why Silone should exile himself from MussaUci's Italy...
...At the CIO convention in Boston were Lea De...
...That is the beg thinking that we have to do to win this war...
...like everybody e.sc, muffed opportuoitie» for r*-oj-g*niiation and genuine planning . . John Scott's new book...
...However, Perry is not, when confronting a specific, concrete situation, as absolist^stic as...
...And he contend* that unieni we believe in "absolute" right and' wror.g we cannot possibly develop adequate morale, personally or socially...
...But if the reader wants to discover any strategy worthy of the name, he will be disappointed- He will discover the lack of it in plenty, however...
...gaining new HBpport in hu fight ·* against the American Library Assoc>atK»ri's ban on h» S*ad» Lonigax in England...
...ahd«e had toe right authors on hand...
...This small book really is a dignified expose, and teveals a tragic scandal Eugene H. Miller, in writing it as a study for the American Council on Public Affairs, has done us a^good jervice—if the significance in the facts he tells can penetrate the heads of people in authority...
...After-effects of the poll-tax fight may toss Senator Alben Barkley out as majoritv leader*, aad possibly kill his hopes for his Supreme Court appointn-.^nt...
...It is "Strategy at Singapore...
...Let us not ignore Singapore by any means, but neither let our strategy be so tied up by the Singapore mind that We wfH dnpHiJste 'nur hm* .sided strategy of the -pAs...
...The main purpose of the book is to drive home the point that the democratic cretd ia not just an alternative to other Weed* bat is...
...It was all pretty hot...
...If officials paid more attention to what people in general say and think, and less to their own mouthing* in vacuum-enclosed salons, tbe ? wouldn't have made such a mees of things...
...Although there have been varieties of "moral relativism" of erratic and insubstantial kind*, it is far front true to say...
...Our side is right—because it is the side that respects the individual, that maintains as an ideal of judgment and conduct the necessity of taking into account the relative differences and values...
...But it is had enough...
...ft* History in Reverse MISS FISHER has ideas—as, for example: "They will not attend *** until American history is so taught as to throw more light on the questions men and women face every day and the problems they must meet with action...
...Is it ?????- inapossihle to remain firmly convinced of the validity, say, of one's own religion if, at the...
...sputtered...
...Interest and understanding may—in a generation or two-get us somewhere...
...Because of his unqualified attack on "moral relativism" Perry slurs over completely the fact that the Nazis and Fascists are tbe enemies of "relativism" in every domain...
...In 18...
...Duel for Europe, which some reviewers read as a hard-headed apologia for the Krcmiin policy, was labeled "prize stinkeroo" by the Sunday Workei Tune was when tbe CP...
...The history oi the pa>t is worth anything only so far as it teaches us to understand the present and manage the future...
...I gather from academic discussions that a lot of professional educators and college teachers will not be averse to this suggestion...
...His dispatches are some of the f.nest things cabled...
...Does any reader of this column have any evidence about what hoys read in the Army...
...If Perr> is «orreet, it would, follow that tolerance of diversity aad moral conviction, are mutually antagonistic...
...Perry suggests that "a solution may be found in di.ffereo.t combinations of the two methods, suited to the peculiar habits and conditions of particular countries...
...Willkie has had a careful check made- of election laws in every state with a prospect of heading a thirtl-pa'ty tickat in 1044 the million legal restrictions found make the outiock in that directum look pretty bleak...
...The lyrics, "When black folks lived in slavery...
...What she wanted was a ready-made formula for world-salvation...
...THE pressure is still on to stop the Commie school of falsification in the filming of Mission to Moscow...
...On every side propaganda-threatens to dominate the thought of our times...
...DROFESSOR PERRY has written a simpie and * thougAtfui book -on scree questions of morale...
...That is fine if it means international policing cr safeguards under some United Nations -sort of a League of Nations with teeth, but if it means just more of the old mistakes, we -merely will be accumulating greater mistakes for a horrifying and calamitous future...
...Harvard 17w«cmtjk" ?*?, $1.70...
...The caption explains that the fit-looking young private is a member of the British Eighth Amy in- Africa, 'and that he is taking a siesta under the transport truck after driving it for hours across the desert in pursuit of the racing ^mmel...
...what ia to ? done with Germany after the war, and frenr there on we covered the reconditioning and reorganising of all Europe...
...The catchwords of the day are dangerous and vicious...
...ufer_C*ftv...
...It is diffuse and discursive,' full of exaggerations and even distortions (particularly with respect to the Radical Republicans), lacking in arty analysis and insight...
...Footnote...
...Thomas F. Cochran, Arthur Garfield Hays and Joseph jUtner...
...Winifred Fisher, who makes the report', does not blame the educational organizations for not offering more courses in this vital subject...
...Let justice be done though the heavens fall" epitomize* the essential pathological character oi absolatism, whatever its neid...
...But she has a prime suggestion...
...Those who prove to be barren of such-novelties could be shifted to any other department which would take tbemr...
...Quotations from soldier letters would be good evidence...
...the paper shortage eliminates moat correspond...
...The real story <xf why Willkie's Darlan passage was stopped by Stimson does not involve "censorship...
...Tall, tawny Walter Huston is play-.ng the role of Da vies, the dapper ambassador...
...ifrigfratars iull of ice cream, anu whipped crcam/**nd a miU#Np delicacies, has been ordered out, on M'-s...
...George Seldes, front hatchet ????, smeared Sflone is The New Republic, tearing sentences out of context, to argue that Simne has equated «ociaHsjr with fascism...
...Small wonder that there is no stampede to the registration table...
...His comments shoal the President seemed friendly...
...During the intermission—while the girls in search of autographs were hindering the authorial absorption of ???—this dark arid dashing young guy slipped up to me...
Vol. 25 • November 1942 • No. 48
