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...Everywhere else democracy and U.S. policy were on the defensive or in a frustrated deadlock with their enemies. Eastern Europe was closed to U.S. influence. Occupied Germany was a deepening morass of four-power conflict. France, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium were allowed to drift through a year of chaotic "peace." Spain was an embarrassing problem. Even U.S.-British relations had soured over the bungled preparations for the British loan. In the Americas, Perón prospered on Washington's opposition. In southeast Asia and Indonesia, restless peoples, driving for freedom, were losing faith in a U.S. which appeared...
Chicago's Democratic Boss Ed Kelly, discussing the controversy raised by the Pauley appointment, defended the President in oddly pragmatic terms: "These are minor things compared to the big things and if we have prosperity they'll all be ironed out. These are chaotic times, and Mr. Truman is a good chaotic governor in that he's matched to the times. He's trying to let water find its level. When it does, everything will be fine...
...young Hungarian art student got mad at his work. He was sketching a routine, academic still life; it seemed to him "there were too many shapes pressed into a chaotic arrangement." So he took scissors, cut away some parts of the study, turned it to an angle of 90°. Friends scoffed at his mutilated picture, but it gave him "a feeling of indescribable happiness...
...Jerseyite: "Any power can get ideas of world domination. For the sake of our own security, we shouldn't tell the other countries about the bomb, even though they can find out for themselves. We aren't too sure we can have peace. Things are too chaotic. . . . There are still places that are foreign to our way of life and may cause trouble. Which country? It's hard to say; I don't want to be specific...
Despite what H. I. Phillips said in his New York Sun column Saturday, New Haven was just as chaotic and traditional this year as it was before the war. The drunks were there, so were the raccoon coats, and the Taft lobby was jammed solid. The open trolleys were out in flocks on Chapel Street, too, with their ex-acrobat conductors swinging along the sides picking up fares...