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...Republican National Convention opened in an atmosphere of finality. All over the U. S., prophecies were heard that, unless the Republican Party chose the right man and the right platform, it would disappear in a clap of political thunder...
...Munichtime dragged away, voices joined the old chorus, saying this is a small world. The wheels rolled faster, Berlin and Moscow joined hands, Poland vanished in a clap of thunder. World War II crystallized Isolation as the dominant U. S. mood...
...from the Carolina low country to the Colorado badlands, painting dilapidated shanties of Southern Negroes, sprawling prairie hamlets of the Middle West, dry, cowboy country of the Rockies. Ungilded with backwoods quaintness, unburdened with "social significance," his paintings let the U. S. speak for itself, from ramshackle farmhouses and clap-boarded Western store fronts...
...cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...
...Minister Oliver Stanley left his gas mask in his motor, as did the Canadians' commander, Major General Andrew George Lotto McNaughton, and other brass hats. When the gas alarm sounded during a demonstration of trench digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working . . . under actual war conditions...