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Harvard History Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, pondering the moony tides of U. S. politics, last winter came to a conclusion that sent a little wave of gloom through U. S. conservatives. His conclusion: that the revolt against conservatism which began in 1931 will last until 1947-48. His qualification: this does not necessarily mean Term III, or even continuance of the Democrats in power; but rather that, no matter who is in office, the "political mood known loosely as New Dealism will govern the conduct of the Government...
...last week's peace brought in its wake gloom, mutual accusations, bitterness, savage resentment, failure, foreboding, recrimination, renewed hostility, new fears and new preparations, new hatreds and new defiances. It was a week of democratic frustration in which Finland blamed Sweden for not permitting Allied aid , Sweden accused Britain and France of wanting to make Scandinavia a battleground, the French blamed the British for not pressing aid to Finland, the British blamed the Swedes, the small nations of Europe accused the Allies of too nice an observance of neutral rights, Dorothy Thompson blamed the U. S. Senate, the Senators...
...especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his face a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be?" came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who were set on being doctors or lawyers were certainly lucky. So were the future business men, the Detur possessors about to be section men, the drifters in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These things were...
...Plunged the House economy bloc into gloom, virtually wrecked the economy drive by adding to the Farm Bill, in the Appropriations Committee, $212,000,000 for "parity payments." Other additions by the Senate boosted the House bill by $309,793,584, put the farm fund close to one billion dollars...
...Dined with Göring, while the Nazi press thundered its regular warning that Göring's mighty air force could launch its devastating attack on Britain whenever Hitler said the word. If there was any justification for last week's gloom in Washington and the word there that the Allies have only a 45-to-55 chance, Göring was the man to justify...