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Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...
...envision the swaying bodies of the reapers (brought in by the Student Union in truckloads from everywhere) and the rhythmic motion of their scythes. And then there are the social possibilities. Corn husking bees, with red ears a-plenty. Square dances in Dillon Field House, with chaff upon the floor...
...have made common cause with Great Britain. You cannot therefore disown responsibility for anything that her representatives do in India. You will do a grievous wrong to the Allied cause if you do not sift the truth from the chaff whilst there is yet time. Just think of it. Is there anything wrong in the Congress demanding unconditional recognition of India's independence? It is being said: 'But this is not the time.' We say: This is the psychological moment for that recognition. For then and then only can there be irresistible opposition to Japanese aggression...
...fighting the war, squelching that party in an election is the nadir of diplomatic ineptitude. It makes as little sense as pelting the British Ambassador with eggs. News of the New York development will be first priority propaganda for the Nazi radio. Such crude methods of separating radical chaff from political wheat actually supply ready-made grist for Goebbels' mill...
This was the time one was supposed to think back over the last four years, to sum them up, to sift the wheat from the chaff, to see everything in its proper proportion. Vag had a jumbled image of the Larz Anderson Bridge on a Saturday afternoon in the fall, of the workmen putting wooden treads on the Widener steps and driving stakes into the ground to guide the snow-plows, of Memorial Hall, with thin trickles of sunlight straining through the colored glasses, and rows of heads bent over tables, and of that first light green tinge the trees...