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This week in Moscow Comrade Stalin said, "Germany is on the verge of catastrophe . . . [Russia will] raise the banner of victory over Berlin ... in the near future." But the talk around London after Churchill's return was that Stalin, a man who never seems to hurry, had his eye on next summer. The Red armies had jarred to a stop last week among the bristling defenses of East Prussia...
...inescapable conclusion from these antipathetic attitudes is that thousands of voters want a spectacular leader, a "Führer," for their candidate. They desire and seek an egocentric, messianic individual, under whose banner they may exultantly follow in search of the more abundant life...
...Water. In Bournemouth, England, Mrs. Dorothy Banner cleaned her chimney, found wriggling in the soot alive, 10-in. golden carp...
...cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF...
When the council met, there was nothing to distinguish this meeting from a dozen others. In the assembly hall a blue and white banner over the platform bore the legend "love and security." A large likeness of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen stared down with brooding eyes at bored back-row members who read newspapers through Chiang Kai-shek's opening speech. Unsuspecting General Ho Ying-chin made an ominous report on Japanese advances, conditions in the Chinese Army. Suddenly it, happened. General Ho reeled under a blistering barrage of critical questions...