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Specifically both parties pledged their efforts to keep the U. S. out of World War II; isolationists in both parties went further, said: "This war is none of our business." But through the winter the U. S. watched Finland fight; now in the spring saw Denmark and Norway swallowed up in new aggressions. By last week the Great Debate was really under way. No newspaper was too small, no hamlet too remote, no group of citizens too insensitive to be untouched. The question under debate was, broadly: "Is this war our concern?" and while the negative-takers still dominated...
...calculated to increase the security of Leningrad, for which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings with both Finland and Sweden, and last week Ambassador Ivan Maisky had a long talk with British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler about the possibility of a trade agreement with Great Britain. This week the possibility of such an agreement seemed likelier as Ambassador Maisky again visited the Foreign Office...
Heresy's chief weakness is that it begets further heresies. Last week the heretical Trotskyites read their own heretics out of the fold. Schism started when orthodox Russian Communists invaded Poland and Finland. Schachtmanites declared that the Stalinists had thus blasphemed against the revolutionary religious content of Marxism, made an imperialist mockery of the holy Marxist doctrine. Comrade Cannon sided with Prophet Trotsky, who in long epistles to the infidels condemned the Stalinists' means but condoned their ends. Soon Marxists Cannon and Schachtman were as doctrinally tangled as two Fundamentalist preachers, one of whom is a dipper...
...Prelude to The Tempest (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume VI of the definitive Sibelius Society set, magnificently performed and recorded. These miscellaneous pieces, ranging from Op. 9 to Op. 109a, are nearly all bleak, bardic, Nordic, at times sound as relevant to contemporary Finland as an air-raid alarm...
Evening lecturers at the conference will include Dr. Hjalmar J. Procope, Minister from Finland; Mr. Charles Bruggman, Minister from Switzerland; Dr. A. Loudon, Minister from the Netherlands; Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Pastor of the Community Church, New York City; Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence, of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; and Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, Washington...