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...Solemn, forthright Senator Walter F. George of Georgia gave up his post as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee to become chairman of the all-important Finance Committee, which has the difficult job of pushing the Administration's 1941 Tax Bill through the Senate (see col. 1). To head Foreign Relations, an oldtime, all-out follower of the President's foreign policy stepped in: wavy-haired, black-hatted Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Jimmy Byrnes's Audit & Control post went to a 50% New Dealer, Scott W. Lucas of Illinois. Isolationist Walsh and anti-New Dealer Tydings...
...first nobody paid much attention to the Colonel's spirited but discreet lectures. Then a reporter for Hearst's International News Service got an interview with Colonel Wedgwood in Boston. According to Hearst's man, the Colonel spoke out in forthright terms against U.S. inaction. Said he: "The trouble with you Americans is that you're afraid to assume responsibilities. Your President has assumed a large share of responsibility, it's true, but why haven't you got a sensible Congress? . . . After all, this is your...
What these two men said to each other in 75 minutes was not made public. But the times, the war, above all, the contrasting personalities of Wendell Willkie and Franklin Roosevelt made that meeting dramatic. Willkie, 49, good-natured, practical, forthright; Franklin Roosevelt, adept, experienced, in politics for 30 of his 59 years. The room where they met had seen some mighty contrasts in its day; it had rarely contained two men so sharply opposed in temperament, training, belief...
That is what you are trying to make us "ungullible" Americans believe-that we are blind. Alas, dear editor of a forthright but unrepresentative periodical, it is you who are blind. It is you who cannot see that the real Americans that count (not the 10% who cheer the flags waving in the newsreels) cannot in any way condone convoying ships to Britain, using our Navy for protecting somebody else's welfare, or getting us into...
Just where the U.S. stands on the ticklish question of relations with a French Government that is subservient to Hitler was made a lot clearer last week. Cordell Hull made it clear in two statements. The first of them was a warning. Said forthright Mr. Hull...