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...advised Argentina's Novelist-Critic Max Dickmann last week after four months spent in the U.S. at the invitation of the State Department. Novelist Dickmann, 41, had earned the right to advise. Noted for his novels of Argentine life, he has long been a translator of American books, long a student of U.S. mores...
...Dickmann sternly disapproves his country's present foreign policy. He wishes Argentina would take her place alongside the United Nations. But he insisted that Argentines are nearly 100% pro-Ally. If they do not choose to fight it is for three reasons: "A wrong conception of international politics, a pacific viewpoint engendered by 82 years of peace, a spreading of propaganda by Argentine isolationists that the U.S. is taking advantage of World War II to make a colony of South America." Said...
...banquet chicken. In Omaha he conferred with practically every important Nebraska Democrat; at a political dinner he got in a sharp dig at appointment of Republicans to war agency jobs (a sore spot with many a Democratic veteran). In St. Louis he talked to ex-Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann and sidekick Robert Hannegan, whose local machine used to be one of the slickest in the party...
...Judge Becker had a strong lead. By 11 the radio men had set up a microphone in a bedroom and were trying to get the Judge to make a statement. By midnight even the Judge admitted that he had won. The final count: Becker, 183,073; Dickmann...
...Boss Dickmann shook his head, blamed it on the Willkie "backwash" that had got Republicans so stirred up that they could not stop. But the Post-Dispatch saw a defeat for the Machine-the Machine that had registered voters who did not exist, had received payment for public service that it did not perform, and finally had tried to seat in the Governor's chair a man who had not been elected...