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...current regime. This presents the problem of the government's arbitrary drawing of the line between opposition and treason, and action which involves a great danger. But there is also a danger, perhaps a greater danger, in those extremists whom Mr. Mikolajezyk and his loyal opposition completely disown but who nevertheless remain camouflaged within the ranks of the Peasant Party...
...Wallace departure in itself was enough to send Democratic stocks skidding. By his ill-timed, ill-considered outburst on U.S. foreign policy, he had immeasurably widened the existing breach. His stubborn insistence on campaigning only made it worse. In California, Candidate Will Rogers was forced to disown him completely. In New York he did the cause of Candidate Jim Mead no good by bearishly predicting Mead's defeat...
...editorial tongue in cheek when reporting "Playing the Angles" [Oct. 21]? Are . . . readers to assume that American citizens have become so completely demoralized that they must court dishonesty in a thriving black market, must lie, cheat and connive in their frenetic clamor for meat, soap and automobiles, and disown their offspring to obtain an apartment? . . . Not only have we an ample supply of meat, but thousands of Canadians are donating meat coupons to the Canadian Meat Board to help feed the starving Europeans. . . . I have no wish to be smug, but surely if Canada can do it the U.S., with...
Against Mihailovich. What everyone, particularly Moscow, had long known about Yugoslavia, Winston Churchill now broadcast: The forces of Draja Mihailovich had "made accommodations with [Axis] troops. ... In Marshal Tito the Partisans have found an outstanding leader, glorious in the fight for freedom." Thus Churchill disowned the Royal Yugoslav-Cairo Government's support of General Mihailovich. But the Prime Minister did not disown that Government's titular head, 20-year-old King Peter II. Said Churchill: "We cannot disassociate ourselves in any way from [King Peter]." The implication held a hope: that Peter might yet break away from...
...Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud...