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...drift away from isolation in this country is becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...
Last week sponsors of B2H2 bluntly served notice that they would demand debate on their resolution when Congress returns this autumn. Then they announced a bold and backbreaking plan to enlist popular support. Throughout the heat of July and August, eight teams of Congressmen-one Democrat and one Republican to a team-will stump 26 States in favor of B2H2. Republican Joe Ball, teamed with Tennessee's Representative Albert Gore, started the tour this week on the West Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan...
...informed analyst, Hanson W. Baldwin, reported that the Germans recently reversed an earlier decision to leave Italy and its southern islands to the Italians, and now have strong forces there. Winston Churchill said: "Very probably there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before the leaves of autumn fall." Press accounts paid less attention to the words which immediately preceded that prediction...
...Educators estimated last week that by autumn the public school teacher shortage would be 100,000. Half a million children may be locked out of classrooms...
...must to all men, autumn came to Harvard's student body. Almost 700 hundred more Freshmen arrived after the week's vacation was over, swelling '46 ranks to the unprecedented, all-time, magnificent total of almost 1400, with more of them coming in January...