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...earlier form, he said, is dead. But the longer a genuine, effective internationalism is put off, the more U.S. citizens will believe that a Big Four military alliance is the only hope for security. All such military alliances, he warned, sooner or later disintegrate into a grapple and grab among allies. Already responsible U.S. Government officials are talking imperialistically about keeping the bases the U.S. has leased from Britain or won by force of arms in the Pacific and Africa. The future Welles sees for the U.S., if a United Nations council is not set up in time: "Unremitting armaments...
...problem of getting to the game: the subway to Park and thence to Kenmere Square does the trick, but getting back becomes an entirely different matter. It's less crowded to walk over to Mass. Avenue and grab the trolley back to Harvard...
...their poisoned elderberry wine, has come back to Boston, this time with the New York cast headed by Bela Lugosi. For the people who through some oversight have thus far failed to see the play, nothing can be done in this corner but give an unqualified advice to grab it while it's here...
...politicos fed the hunger by throwing the State budget radically out of balance. A succession of prime ministers, all of whom had begun political life as liberals, catered more & more to the pressure of important minorities. And along with this drift toward the politics of making the State a grab bag, there grew up in Italy a feeling that the capitalist system needed some kind of overall regulation. Both Right and Left wanted to be left alone to do their own "planning." And when various plans are offered, a coordinator is needed. Who could do the coordinating...
Bill Jack loves to grab the public address microphone in his Cleveland plant and bellow important news to his "associates" (employes). Last week the president of Barnumesque Jack & Heintz (Jahco), who contends that the War Department is renegotiating him into the red, told them something that hit home to each & every one. His news was a plan to 1) partially circumvent renegotiation, 2) build up a reserve for postwar expansion...