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After this blunt reference to recent statements by German leaders in the dispute with France over the Saarland (TIME, Feb. 6), McCloy said: "Agitation of foreign issues, however tempting, cannot distract attention from vital domestic issues and from the pressing need for domestic reforms...
...first place, the characteristic campaign letter-to graduates, nobles, prelates and merchants-was admirably blunt. If the money was to repair a building, the writer left nothing to the imagination. "No one dares to enter the building," ran one appeal for the school of canon law. "It is surprising that the wind does not bring it down, for the foundations are so far gone as to be beyond repair...
...glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise in these first volumes, Williams' real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique of the Battle of Gettysburg with this blunt praise: "It would seem that every possible excuse has been put forward to explain Lee's failure at Gettysburg. But the real explanation can be given in three words: the Union army...
...Boston Symphony President Henry B. Cabot and his 14 fellow trustees had been "keeping our eyes open for conductors for a long time." Boston proceeded "on the strange assumption," says blunt, silver-spectacled Harry Cabot, "that they were all available." The man they were seeking would be "the boss" in every sense of the word: in programing, choice of soloists and guest conductors. The Boston's trustees could promise this because they still follow the enviable first principles laid down by the orchestra's founder, Major Henry Lee Higginson: relationship of orchestra to conductor-absolute obedience; relationship...
...Fighter, and General "Howlin' Mad" Smith lashed out at high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important for any student of the war in the air. Blunt, down-to-earth and unghosted was General George Kenney's General Kenney Reports, a day-by-day account of his job and of the air war in the Southwest Pacific. Best of the books on the war at sea were Volume IV (Coral Sea} and Volume V (Guadalcanal...