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...plain people to make tired and broken men feel welcome. Dockers, Forth riveters, nurses, generals, sergeants, privates, onlookers and excited children laughed, wept, blew their noses hard. Cripples, as they came ashore, thumped the Scottish ground with their crutch tips, said: "By God. It's good." In the hubbub few heard General Sir Ronald Adam read a message from Their Majesties, beginning: "The Queen and I bid you a very warm welcome. . . . We rejoice to think that you are safely home...
With much more justice Mr. Welles could return such a charge to his State Department chief." To the hubbub caused by Welles's resignation was added a hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat...
...Hubbub. This State Department situation last week bubbled over into the press. The New Dealing New York Post, which has hammered away at the State Department, saw in Sumner Welles's position an analogy with Anthony Eden's predicament after Munich. The Post suggested that Mr. Welles resign, as did Mr. Eden, and "allow events and the people to vindicate him." The left-wing Nation offered as its remedy the dismissal of Mr. Hull, admitting in the next breath that such a thing could and would not take place...
...Hubbub of Activity...
Manhattan audiences saw the première of a movie that was primarily a political event: the screen version of former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' best-selling Mission to Moscow. Considerable hubbub had preceded the picture's release; Trotskyites had screamed even before they saw it. Last week critics decided that Mission to Moscow is as explosive as a blockbuster. For Hollywood, circumscribed for years by political timidity, the film was audacious in the extreme. It is also pro-Russian and pro-New Deal in the extreme: it takes the flat view that Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt...