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...build bridges across the deep chasms that divide its leaders on U.S. foreign policy. The committee announced formation of an advisory council to consult with leaders and submit a program to the next national convention. Significantly, the new G.O.Postwar Council will consult "all Republican leaders . . . including former President Hoover, and the last two Republican Presidential candidates, Alfred M. Landon and Wendell Willkie...
...whose historical tone poem of the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, has been called "a passionate analysis of the great crisis of contemporary man," has a sharp tongue in a fearsomely feminine head. Last week, in The Atlantic Monthly, she turned her critical attention to Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover's The Problems of Lasting Peace, written in collaboration with Elder Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Never noted as a motherly sort, Critic West sailed in with claws open, left Messrs. Hoover and Gibson considerably tattered. Critic West wrote...
...Doubtless as a compliment to the dove of peace, the book is written chiefly in pidgin English. . . . If a Channel fog wrote history, it would have much the same attitude to time and the sequence of events as Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson . . . but a Channel fog would presumably be less biased...
...Hoover and Mr. Gibson have set themselves the heavy task of rigging up some sort of platform on which old-fashioned Republicans could oppose Mr. Roosevelt, and this involves finding an alternative to his anti-Axis policy which is not straight pro-Naziism. . . . To do them justice, they would be honestly revolted by straight Naziism but . . . if I were an American, and had read this book . . . I should think myself a fool to make any sacrifice whatsoever in order to win this...
...hospital went 36 servicemen and War Department employes woozy from another poisoning, this time apparently from the butterscotch pie. Said W.R.A.'s Director Frank W. Hoover, unimpressed by talk of sabotage: "The place seems to be jinxed...