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...tain, Vichy Chief of State, failed to make a scheduled broadcast. That caused a spate of reports, some buttressed by "informed circles" in France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa...
These jobs had been crying for a taker for three years. By recognizing that they are OWM's plain duty, Byrnes pointed his new agency aright. And by giving a formal job to aged Bernie Baruch he had started with the right kind of help...
...budget-balancing Wall Street Journal said it hoped U.P.'s informant had heard the President aright. But such henny-penny, Morgenthau economics must have been more than annoying to Professor Alvin Hansen, to Mordecai Ezekiel, to Lauchlin Currie, and to a lot of other braintrusters who are planning to prevent any post-war depression by bigger and better deficits. It may have cheered the National Association of Manufacturers, who have not heard the President promise to balance the budget for a long time, but it must have been a shock to those businessmen who still realize that rapid retirement...
...must set Europe's quarrels aright every few decades and finance their war preparations, it would seem that we should have the rule of those countries so that such gangsters as arise may speedily be put out of circulation before they have had sufficient opportunity to grow dangerous to world peace...
Befuddled, appalled, embarrassed were Earl Browder and his U. S. Comrades. The Party press went first into a silence, then into a great writhing (see p. 32). Back to Manhattan from vacation hastened Comrade Browder to set the capitalist press aright .in his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution...