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Added the President, newspapers sometimes unwittingly spread rumors too. He would mention no names. (But everyone knew that his honeymoon with the U.S. press ended with the first New Deal.) Waving his hand, he indicated that, if he did mention names, he would have to include some of his listeners. But he was not going to do anything about it so long as the public was not fooled; he did not think the press had much influence any more...
...Blarney was a brilliant staff officer in France and at Gallipoli in World War I. He retired from the Army in 1925, and was planning a honeymoon (with his second wife) when World War II began. He immediately rejoined the Army, was soon in the Middle East...
Britons, however, were in a mood for sacrifices, and the vigorous New Statesman & Nation urged Whitehall to make the most of it: "A honeymoon period of harmony between Government and the public is before us. It may last for another week, it may last triumphantly for months. . . . Everywhere people are . . . prepared for a change in the whole national system, for the State to take over the mines and any inefficient industry, for the introduction of siege economics...
...with gastritis, Prime Minister John Curtin got up from a hospital bed to address a rally in Sydney. The cool, pedagogic Laborite, who has never been avid for public office, said quietly: "Our honeymoon is finished. ... A new way of life is forced upon us. ... The time for controversy has ended. ... I am not going to waste time arguing about past mistakes. ... I will order and direct. . . . There is only one shield against the spread of total war, that is total effort to end it. ... Brains and brawn are better than bets and beer...
Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...