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...General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...
...Beginning. Another kind of Polish issue began to brew last week. One of the worst of the London Poles' many mistakes was their claim to Teschen, which Poland took from Czechoslovakia in 1938, when the Czechs were in Hitler's grasp. The Lublin Poles originally took the opposite line, expressed a willingness to see Teschen go back to Czechoslovakia. But last week the Polish Communist press started an anti-Czech campaign for Teschen...
...with sailors, office workers and the simple man in the street, I saw on the screen the beloved face of Comrade Stalin and my heart beat gladly when handclapping resounded in the hall. I then thought that the average American has all the basis for scorning the dirty reactionary brew of Hearst, McCormick & Co. . . . For this average American is the great American people which . . . wishes to live in peace and friendship with the great people of my country...
...could have imagined these vignettes etched by a madman. Once the Red storm had passed and the German shells had run out of range, waiters from a Bierstube stood in the rubble with foaming steins, smiling tentatively, offering them to the Russians, going through the motions of tasting the brew, as if to say: "See, it is not poisoned...
...great unknown ingredient in this witches' brew is the German people. Undoubtedly the Allies have underestimated their toughness, resourcefulness and will-to-win. Yet as the Germans begin to see absolutely no hope of winning, more & more of them, not so sunk in guilt as the Nazi malefactors, will want to cry quits. There will be only one way to keep them in line: terror...