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...Price. Frenchmen now had to pay for their lack of vigilance, generosity, courage; for electing politicians who traded their principles to maintain themselves in power. Frenchmen last week knew that Marshal Pétain was a figurehead, that their real leader was Pierre Laval, one man who thought he could have saved France from Hitler-if France had been willing to pay his price...
Dewey did it the hard way. With his braintrusted speeches (at $3,000 a speech), without the help of one major G. O. P. figurehead, he entered every primary in sight, met every challenge head on. Last week he pulverized professionals, reduced experts to tears. Expected at best to break even, he swept the Wisconsin primary, using Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg as the broom. In the State where Vandenberg is best known, outside Michigan, Mr. Dewey suddenly became better known. On Wisconsin farms he ran like a prairie fire; in Wisconsin cities he ran like a rumor...
...know much about General Baron Mannerheim, but I am sure a real old general is more fit for commanding an army than an ex-sergeant-major, but of course the latter is only a figurehead...
...Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...
Berlin correspondents quickly disposed of wild reports that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...