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International politics is a seasonably safe ground for comic amity between nations. Block was the man behind Bob Hope's recent European gagfest and had a circus trying out his best Anglo-American jests. Hilariously successful sample...
...Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example, could undoubtedly make out a good case for an Anglo-American understanding in support of Beard's "continentalism" (especially as it involves defending the sea approaches to Latin America). But Beard does not let his opponents use the brains which at least one or two of them have...
...Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
...history which are his. He had not come to apologize or to defend himself. Rather, he had come in triumph: "I cannot recollect," said he, "anything so complete and prolonged as the series of victories which have attended our Allied arms in almost every theater." He proclaimed progress in Anglo-American relations with Russia (see p. 38), but his speech was largely a report on "this amazing and fearful world...
...continued progress of Anglo-American preponderance . . . opens the possibilities of saturating German defenses. ... If a certain degree of saturation can be reached ... we shall create conditions under which . . . the actual methodical destruction ... of the enemy military target . . . will become possible...