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...froth-mouthed isolationist, before Dec. 7 Hearst published yapping anti-British editorials which sometimes outdid the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Afterward, for a time, the anti-British editorials disappeared. But not for long. Presently Hearst's 4,110,270 daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet...
...event was his talk with Hitler. "I felt," he said afterward, "that in the mind of Hitler there was much of spiritual matters, transcending material plans. When I met the Führer he said that since boyhood he had been attracted by Japan. He read carefully reports of Japan's victory over Russia when he was only 17 years old and was impressed by Japan's astonishing strength...
...main forts defending the city. He fled Paris on a half-hour's notice, and drove continuously for 48 hours, covering only 300 miles. The ARP priority insignia on his car enabled him to get through military lines. Later he cycled 300 miles back to Paris, and months afterward finally received his papers to come to America via Lisbon...
Died. Alice Hegan Rice, 72, author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, wife of Poet Cale Young Rice; in Louisville, Ky. Published in 1901, the gently humorous story of a down-at-heels widow and her five children stayed among the leading-best-sellers for years afterward. It was Mrs. Rice's first novel. Dramatized, it became a longtime stock-company standby. The book was translated into half a dozen foreign languages...
...Maxton, one of Parliament's three ultra-left Independent Laborites who represent Glasgow's shipyard workers.* More important, 67 of those present did not vote at all. And as far as a large part of Parliament was concerned, the vote was not wholehearted; it just seemed necessary. Afterward Winston Churchill's many critics went right on criticizing...