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Pointing out that the emergency was a matter of days, not of years, Columnist Raymond Clapper last week demanded amendment of the law, cried: "What are we waiting for?" The State Department moved fast to cut red tape, decreed that necessary affidavits could be cabled to England. Promptly Western Union arranged for affidavits to be sent from any Western Union office. The American Association of University Women arranged to find homes for 3,000,6,000 children of British university graduates; the Committee for the Care of European Children prepared to aid families that wanted them but could not afford...
...begged) their vote for this man Willkie. In this urgent, crusading atmosphere the delegates were increasingly uncomfortable. They could no longer read the newspapers with any enjoyment for all the important political columnists were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...choice, he seems to us to be heaven's gift. . . ." The Philadelphia Public Ledger had just plumped for Willkie; since June 19, Roy Howard's 18 papers had been thunderously thumping. At mid-convention, his bellwether New York World-Telegram had three of its four featured columnists (Clapper, Johnson, Westbrook Pegler) firing for Willkie. To many a G. O. P. delegate-overwhelmed with Willkie wordage-it must have seemed last week that the press indeed had nominated Wendell Willkie...
...politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist Ray Clapper: "Democracy has been a failure in Europe. It has been blind, slow, inefficient, unable to understand its interests and to protect them. . . . The idea of popular sovereignty is down flat on its back. The tribal king is on the throne again. . . . Republicans have just one issue in this campaign...
...form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...