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Sometimes the propaganda spook speaks German, sometimes it speaks French. But it is the spectre with a British accent that scares Authors Lavine & Wechsler the most. Nazi propaganda they dismiss rather briefly as, on the whole, inept and ineffective. But they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there...
Three enemies since William have threatened Britain seriously with invasion. The first, Philip II of Spain, built a great armada for the try, but it got wrecked by battle and storm near the British coasts. The second, Napoleon, threatened from Boulogne in 1805, but his inept Navy and his elaborate feint to draw the British Navy off to the West Indies failed miserably. The third, Hitler, last week put out preliminary feelers over southeast England. Some chickens, a pony, a cow and two heifers were the first victims...
...school, he got a job copying documents, each week gave his pay envelope to his mother, unopened. He went on to the Naval Academy, where he was a popular mediocrity. He finished at the centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled millet and soup with dry leeks [a poor peasant food...
...Deal Misunderstands Economic America. There are many reasons why the New Deal has failed to stimulate, if it has not actually prevented, a sustained revival and healthy expansion of American enterprise. Immaturity of judgment in the timing and drafting of legislation. Inexperienced and inept administration. The use by the executive department of persons, with apparently decisive influence on policy, who clearly, even if honestly, disbelieve in the political system of balanced powers and the economic system of regulated free enterprise. An intolerant and vindictive temper on the part of the New Deal leadership that has depressed the morale...
...adjectives available to TIME industrious is the most inept in describing Alton Cook, radio editor of the New York World-Telegram. I know because he shared my apartment for many years and he is the laziest man who ever left a bed unmade and dishes in the sink from Friday to Friday, the day of the slavey's weekly visitation...