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...Kansas, a somewhat baffled Alf Landon introduced the utilities executive as the "vigorous, energetic and amazing Wendell Willkie." Said Mr. Willkie to Alf Landon and a Kansas crowd: "I'm the cockiest fellow you ever saw. If you want to vote for me, fine. If you don't, go jump in the lake and I'm still...
Apprehensive Republicans steeled Alf Landon for the dangerous lunch. Collar askew, pants rumpsprung as ever, the Kansan appeared at the White House, reappeared almost two hours later, said: "We talked of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings." "Cabinets and kings?" asked a reporter. Cabbages, said Mr. Landon. He went back to his hotel room, there dictated another vigorous blast against a Third Term. Mr. Roosevelt could have national unity, he said, if he would at once renounce Term III. This statement went big with all G. O. P. leaders, drew a laudatory press...
...glamorless Robert A. Taft, No. 1 Republican Bumbler, beetled off around the U. S. putting his foot in his mouth. Last week in St. Louis, Republicans from eight States told him of a daily-spreading Midwest sentiment for more substantial aid to the Allies. G. O. P. leaders, from Alf Landon down, had warned him to go slow on Isolationism; local chiefs had told him how delighted they were at his continued open-mindedness on foreign affairs. That night Senator Taft spoke, made his strongest appeal yet for strict U. S. neutrality, financial as well as military, in World...
President Conant has a favorite theme. He stated it in a letter to Alf M. Landon last fall. He repeated it on a nation-wide radio hook-up Wednesday night. It is: "Fear of war is no basis for a national policy." This sentence throws dust in the eyes of those interested in keeping this country out of war. It pretends to be a universal principle, applicable in any given case. But it is not. If we feel that a particular war offers nothing but disaster for us, we have a right to fear our entrance into...
Making his first public statement on the war since his letter to Alf Landon favoring repeal of the arms embargo last October, President Conant will speak tonight over a nation-wide hook-up of the Columbia broadcasting system on "Immediate Aid to the Allies...