Word: disunion
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...might disrupt the Old Guard's cozy desire to send an uninstructed (i.e., anti-Willkie) delegation to the Republican convention. Messrs. Pew, Martin, and Grundy took stock of the situation. Their arms extended, they welcomed back Puddler Jim, not because they loved him more, but because they love disunion less...
They accused the Washington Times-Herald and its sister papers (Joseph Patterson's anti-New Deal, anti-British New York Daily News and Robert McCormick's ditto Chicago Tribune) of being "sleepless" in their efforts "to spread disunion among the Allies." As he read on, the President, obviously enjoying his ready-made answer, paused once to interpolate that the Herald Tribune is (accented) a respectable newspaper and to smile benignly at the HT's Washington correspondent, comfortable, spectacled Bert Andrews...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...
Women and war aims must be understood before they can be handled. Discussion of the eight points, their virtues and their short-comings, has been discouragingly paltry. Britain's attitude that discussion of practical post-war problems will lead to disunion among those fighting the common enemy is justified. Proposals for a future boundary between Czechoslovakia and Poland, for instance, would only result in setting the London governments of those countries at one anothers' throats. Such an attitude should not obtain in America, far removed from the petty quarrels of the small nations of Europe. Twenty-three years ago tomorrow...
Angrily, sourly, in grave disunion, the Convention adjourned. And in the swift days after the grunting delegates entrained for home, the effects showed as clearly as Mr. Roosevelt could have wished. Demo cratic lame ducks Holt of West Virginia and Burke of Nebraska announced for Wendell Willkie; so did Booth Tarkington, Irvin S. Cobb; so did the Louisiana sugar planters, and all the men who bolted Roosevelt...