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...Senator [Burton K.] Wheeler were a candidate for re-election today, would you vote for him or against him? Did you vote for Wheeler for Senator last November?" Result, projected from early returns: Isolationist Leader Wheeler would be defeated by from 100,000 to 150,000 votes (last autumn...
...raised the first forth right, authoritative Catholic voice last week against any idea that Hitler's war against Russia was a holy crusade. Two months ago this same bishop-the Most Rev. Joseph Patrick Hurley, who was dispatched from a Vatican post to St. Augustine, Fla. last autumn - was the first to proclaim Naziism a worse enemy than Communism...
...General N. D. Kashirin, who was shortly to be executed. Later in the year Timoshenko became Commander of the Kharkov Military Area, succeeding General L. Dubovoy, who already had been executed. In 1938 General Timoshenko returned to the Kiev Area as full commander. While in this post, in the autumn of 1939, he directed the Red Army's occupation of eastern Poland...
When the war began, Betty Humby organized concerts in British cathedrals (free, easy to advertise). She also helped keep evacuated children out of mischief by holding morning concerts in cinemas. Last autumn, with her ten-year-old son Jeremy, she went to the U.S., where she plans to remain for the duration, believing (like Conductor Beecham) that she can help England without being there...
Dixon Ryan Fox (president of Union College-at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute): "History will say that there were two appropriate times for us to enter this conflict-one in the autumn of 1939 . . . and the other in the summer of 1941, when it was seen to be absolutely necessary in order to avert a German peace...