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...deputy leader of the Radical (liberal) Party, young Damonte had been blunt in his criticism of Argentina's failure to break diplomatic relations with the Axis...
...Tomorrow Morning" is an appeal to the "Mechanics of the morning, you of the blunt hands, the sensitive fingers," to remember in the society of the future the anonymous intellectuals who were "swept by the same flood of passion toward the morning that is yours." Some memorable lines...
...first suspicions of sabotage, Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District, made blunt reply. Said he: "The fire started . . . when a civilian worker . . . was using ah acetylene torch to remove an ornamental lamp from the salon wall. A spark from his torch apparently leaped into a pile of life preservers...
...Home Folks. Yet men with keen ears thought that Axis propaganda weapons were getting blunt from over work: global war to the death was just too big. German setbacks in Russia were al most too big for the master propagandist, Adolf Hitler, himself. His address to his people, on the ninth anniversary of his leadership, sounded like an old phono graph record grinding away under a groove-stuck needle: "Russian winter . . . many . . plutocratic . Russian warmongers . . . winter. . . ." innocent Ger Hitler almost said in so many words that it would do the German people no good to throw the Nazis...
...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...