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Example to the World. Foreign Commissioner Bidault was more forthright. He said: "We are going to have a revolution, and France is going to give an example to the world of a new revolution-a legal...
...Willkie, another forthright politician. My respect for him was great enough when he cut his own political throat by speaking for his sincere convictions; convictions, incidentally, with which I agree in a large measure...
That's the kind of rounded, forthright, human reporting we try to give you so briefly in TIME...
Scene VI: The Stadium. Henry Wallace, battling for his political life, had the galleries with him. After his stiff-necked, forthright seconding speech for Franklin Roosevelt he got the most honest ovation of the convention, three minutes of real cheering. Later that same day, after the President's voice had boomed, too loud, through the cluster of amplifiers, the name of Henry Wallace set the galleries afire. From every corner of the Stadium, packed with PACsters, came the chant: "We want Wallace!" At this point the Wallace nomination might have been roared through. Balding Chairman Sam Jackson...
...have a bigger job for you." Delegate Ruth Buchanan, a Glendale housewife, spoke of his "duty to the nation." The words became more heated. There were mutterings that Warren was being a traitor to his Party, and cutting his political throat as well. A freshman delegate, burly, forthright Movie Producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Since You Went Away), stopped such talk. Said he: "Who are we to question our . . . Governor's decision? He's just as patriotic as any man in this room." At the end, Governor Warren still stood fast. The meeting adjourned...