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...this obscure by-election, the nation's politicos could hold a mirror to the future. War Hero Wuertele plumps for servicemen's issues ("If they draft soldiers, why not draft everyone?"). He covers his lack of political and business experience by an engaging candor: "Lots of people ask me questions about problems I don't know anything about. . . . I don't owe anybody anything, so when I figure out what a man ought to do, I can go ahead and do it." To offset the war heroics, Gillespie's backers are trying out the slogan...
...late-jazz-age authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum) who became Shanghai's favorite ex-New Yorker, deplored the lack of Occidental gossip. Back in the U.S. (via the Gripsholm) for the first time in nine years, the onetime "China Coast Correspondent" of The New Yorker sighed for the Oriental candor she had left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know.' " Long-famed...
...unpredictable votes swamping the ballot boxes in 1944. A coalition of GOPsters and conservative Democrats did the heavy work in killing the Lucas-Green bill. But the soldier who goes with out a vote cannot put the full blame on the old anti-New Deal coalition. With clear-eyed candor, New Mexico's suave Dennis Chavez surveyed his colleagues and remarked to the Senate as a whole: "We seem to be afraid...
...word of my statement was intended as an attack on Great Britain. . . . I must say, in all candor, that our British allies have become unduly sensitive if an American citizen and Senator cannot discuss the operations and policies of his own government without raising a storm of furor and resentment. . . . Any lasting world peace must have as its keystone a complete understanding between the United States and the British Empire. But this cooperation and understanding cannot be had except upon a basis of equality and frank and fair dealings. . . . Frank discussion will always dissipate the clouds of suspicion...
...Editor Crowther observes: "Transatlantic's hope is that it may help you to base your likes and dislikes on knowledge instead of on ignorance. . . . It is not an attempt to seduce you from your proper loyalties. . . . Will it look at America through rose-tinted spectacles? Certainly not. . . . Friendly candor is to be the keynote...