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...busily briefing a subtle new kind of spy. Its name is the Grasshopper; its job is to parachute into enemy territory and report back by radio. When it goes into action, the Grasshopper looks for all the world like one of the intelligent mechanical monsters of an animated movie cartoon...
Cried London's Daily Mail: "What sterile, counting-machine mind decided that these chunks of climate must pay duty?" Said the Times: "If the taxation is for revenue, the interest of the Exchequer demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...
...Best cartoon: Stephen Bosustow's Gerald McBoing-Boing...
When the constitution was promulgated, after 26 months of doctrinaire hairsplitting, it was a victory for Auriol's compromise policy. (A popular cartoon had showed him yelling into a telephone: "Thirty-seven Chambers and six Presidents, that's my final offer!") But the victory was only tactical. With a few minor changes, the same abuses which Auriol had attacked in his book would be possible under the Fourth Republic. On Jan. 16, 1947, Vincent Auriol was elected President of the Republic; since then his job has been, as he once wrote, to "regularize political disorder...
...sided political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...