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That same theory saw Presidential campaigning in defense inspection tours like the one to Newport News. Last week one political taboo was exorcised-from Washington popped a story that a New Deal spokesman had discussed the question with a representative of Wendell Willkie. The story: Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish got in touch with Russell Davenport of Wendell Willkie's staff, suggested that if Mr. Willkie would make no public criticism, President Roosevelt might request Congress to release aged U. S. destroyers that Britain needs...
...ARCHIBALD F. KEY Managing Editor The Plaindealer Press Ltd. Drumheller, Alberta...
Formed in New-Orleans last week was the Order of the American Razzberry. Based on the antitotalitarian Fourth of July speech,* delivered by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (TIME, July 15) and said to be written by Poet Archibald MacLeish, the new order will decorate "all stuffed shirts, politicians or others, who prove themselves friends of Adolf Hitler ... by hampering and slowing up the national defense of the U. S.'' Highest decoration: "the American Razzberry Rampant upon a Nazi Swastika Couchant." Lesser: "the Crooked Double Cross...
...Forester so skillfully constructs the silences of unbruised continents, the dreadfulness of events, that he inevitably challenges the memory of Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador. His story has the pity of that poem, some of its beauty and power...
Last month Archibald MacLeish penitently claimed that he and other writers of his generation (Ernest Hemingway, et al.) by their debunking of old slogans had "disarmed" the U. S., rendered it cynical and "defenseless before an aggressor" (TIME, June 3). Last week a famed educator got up and beat a rival breast. Before 1,000 visiting teachers at the summer session of Columbia University's Teachers College, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon made an extraordinary confession...