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...Times published this blunt declaration and appeal on the eve of Anthony Eden's visit to the U.S. (see p. 9) and two days after Ambassador Standley spoke up for the U.S. in Russia (see col. 3). The Times may have spoken out of turn, but London's one-great "Thunderer" does speak the mind of a potent section of British opinion. Its editorial was no more nor less than an extension of the point of view implicit in the Anglo-Russian pact which Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin arranged...
...Veteran. The British approved him. Blunt as a hammer, he remarked to Sir Sholto Douglas, then chief of the Fighter Command: "Sir Sholto, I hear you are a son-of-a-bitch and that I'm not going to get along with you at all. Is that right?" They got along like a thumb and a first finger. At a military demonstration he sat next to King George for half an hour, exchanged only a how-do-you-do and a goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen...
Outside India. There were many prompt to claim that Gandhi, the politician, had not only dried up his sources of world sympathy but was washed up politically as well. The blunt truth was that the Western world had always been less interested in the fate of India than in the tug of war between the British Raj and such articulate Indians as Mohandas Gandhi. Now, once the excitement of the fast was over, the West was not greatly concerned about the life or death of a shriveled little man in a loincloth...
...Never again will I prostitute my Christian ministry to the idealizing of any war." Harry Emerson Fosdick, Manhattan's famed preacher, made this blunt promise in his own pulpit in 1939. He has kept his promise. He has avoided glorifying war, has continually sounded the thesis that after the war the U.S. must live with all the nations of the world...
People get fat from overeating not from glands. This blunt statement was made last week in the leading U.S. gland journal (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology) by Stanford University's Dr. Windsor Cooper Cutting. As cautious as the next doctor, Dr. Cutting offered no pat explanation of why people overeat. Wrote he: "Certainly the girl disappointed in love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation...