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...inside Russia. But evidence and logic are on the side of religious freedom for the 84 million Catholics (Vatican figures) in Russian-dominated territory. The Church has been left strictly alone irf Poland, even in the property-sharing schemes of the Lublin Government. Such a policy, while helping to dispel the general belief that Bolshevism is the enemy of religion, would unquestionably make it much easier for Russia to expand its spheres of influence...
...When he climbed out, he met an unknown brown- & -yellow animal ready to spring upon him. He shot at it. Then he was charged by three buffalo bulls. He escaped again, "inclined to believe it all enchantment if the thorns of the prickly pear piercing his feet did not dispel at every moment the illusion...
Union without Spoils. To meet this problem, he offered a concrete solution: let the U.S. dispel her Allies' fear by making a treaty with them guaranteeing the use of force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. Said he: "Surely we can agree that we do not want an instant's hesitation or doubt about our military cooperation in the peremptory use of force, if needed, to keep Germany and Japan demilitarized. Such a crisis would be the lengthened shadow of the present war. ... It should be handled as this present war is handled...
...main fact was that the man most qualified to dispel the world's doubts about the U.S.'s intentions had spoken up. U.S. Senators who believe in international participation by the U.S., many of whom could scarcely believe their ears, were amazed and, generally, pleased. U.S. press reaction was also favorable-save for the grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course...
More Allied supplies were flowing into Burma last week than ever before-more than twice as much as a year ago. Result: the Japanese were in retreat. A local success could not dispel the gloom over China's plight (see above), but it did demonstrate that when U.S.-trained Chinese troops got the tools, they knew...