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...colors--the Democrat left. Within this heterogeneous mass has risen a vast confusion over aims and a debilitating internecine strife over fundamentals, with treatment of the Communists lying at the heart of the difficulty. Strained Russian-American relations have transformed Communism from a wartime ally into the greatest red herring in the American press. This swift change of opinion, coupled with Truman's domestic difficulties has-put organizations of the left wing on the defensive. If the Democratic Party is to recover, if it is to galvanize its forces under one program, it remains for these elements to find some...
Search for Herring. None of Britain's returning daughters had been able to adjust herself to life in Canada. It was also apparent that a few had not tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
Canadian table manners bothered her too: "I've never seen our slum children eating the way theirs do-stuffing food in their mouths with their fingers. Yet when I ate with my knife they criticized me." Furthermore, her Canadian relations never had herring for Sunday breakfast. Furthermore, Canadian girls "don't have complexions like our girls and they put too much rubbish on their faces...
...sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
Several observers, M. Le Gall among them, have seen schools of fish turn toward the ASDIC-emitting vessel. Why they do it, he does not know, or even whether they do it regularly. He intends to find out. But if fish do-voilà! In future, schools of herring may be seduced by ASDIC right into kippering plants...