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...Cambridge University, announced he would "explain homemade Fascism" to the English, gave as an example "John Lee Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Texas [and] Laborbaiter." Replied Smith: "The shipping space . . . could be better used by shipping some good Texas beefsteak which English stomachs would relish better than English brains will digest the mental slumgullion which Dobie has for them...
...American Ears. The anniversary of the Doolittle raid was one day away when Tokyo broadcast a translated digest of the speech to the U.S. This version had been drastically altered. The English broadcast quoted General Sato as having said that Japanese planes "are in a position to attack the American continent. ..." The Japs had already solved the problem presented by "the wide span of area between Japan and America." In fact, said the revised version, if the Americans knew what was good for them they would stop sending their battle planes to the Pacific and Asia, and prepare to "defend...
...form marked Step No. 3 in Ely Culbertson's systematic campaign. First he submitted the plan to several scores of notables in all walks of life, got almost unanimous approval, at least of principle. Second, he published a succinct outline in last February's Reader's Digest. Step No. 4 will be the appearance in June of a weighty volume called Total Peace, which will present the plan in fullest detail...
...Literary Digest poll can move over...
...Washington, Johnston's speech went largely unnoticed. But from the country came congratulatory telegrams (from a tobacco company in Virginia an order for 3,000 copies, reminiscent of the fantastic demand, totaling hundreds of thousands, for reprints of his Readers' Digest article of February titled "Your Stake in Capitalism"). On the West Coast, politicos predict that Johnston in 1944 may unseat Senator Homer Bone of Washington. With a reputation established for driving a middle road between business and Government, Johnston is already political material...