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...passed through, with the bareheaded candidate waving from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks from the town centre, Willkie got his first real baptism by booing: a three-story red-brick General Motors assembly plant sprouted workers at every window, and up went the boos, loud, clear, mocking in the fresh Indian summer...
This is what Commander Kelly said yesterday: "As well as my energies and abilities permitted, I have refused to allow the Legion to become a part in any attempt to lead this country to a second baptism of blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...
...playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner "Thank God for the A. F. S.' . . . There never was a force in the history of service that had a more terrible baptism of fire...
Notable items of the film are news-reels of World War I and selections from the German film, "Baptism of Fire," with Which Nazis subdued any "senseless opposition" among the bigwigs of Norway, Denmark, et al. When used in America, however, "Baptism of Fire" is about as effective a piece of propaganda as the mission of Sir George Paish to this country last month...
Sunday morning the Witnesses climaxed their convention with a mass baptism for 2,500 in the pool of a Detroit amusement park. Candidates arrived in a mile-long caravan of cars, were garbed in backless swimming suits, trunks, nightgowns, house dresses and play suits. When the Witnesses were still cluttering the pool at noon, the park's regulars grew impatient. The Witnesses obligingly speeded the remaining baptisms to a six-second dunking apiece...