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...well, you never can tell. Senator Wheeler also doesn't like the way this war is being conducted. Damning the Administration wherever possible, Senator Wheeler doesn't think that Congress should let the Army decide whether it needs to draft fathers for the service. Like Herbert Hoover, the Senator isn't too anxious to invade Europe to reach the Nazis. After all, Japan is our first enemy, and, moreover, Japan doesn't happen to be fighting Russia. After we defeat the Japs, well--the United Nations might decide to negotiate a peace with Hitler...
...then there's Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The Tribune, like Joe Patterson's sheet, isn't too happy about this Russian alliance. Of course, it has every respect for the noble efforts of the valiant Russian heroes, but, as a recent editorial maintained, we mustn't praise them too much lest--mirabile dictu--the conquered peoples become afraid the Axis is going to be beaten. The Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth...
...late Rayna Prohme, U.S. Marxist, with whom Sheean had had a violently platonic love affair during the Chinese revolution and later in Moscow. "But I'm not a revolutionary," Sheean complained. Said Rayna's spirit: "Whoever told you you had to be a revolutionary? Everybody isn't born with an obligation to act." Mrs. Prohme's spirit urged Sheean, if he could not fight, to write against "the whole system of organized injustice by which few govern many, hundreds of millions work in darkness to support a few thousands in ease . . . and the greater part...
This is another case of the second feature outshining the first, but the competition isn't stiff by any means. You may find them relaxing, but chances are just as likely you may find them boring...
...Ickes, "and it wouldn't happen again in a millennium." At this point Harold Ickes regretfully robs the reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this particular dish with mustard and cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce as you may have expected me to do." Adds he: "Some day I will write a sequel - a bloody one!" Meantime, he heaves a whole hive of hornets...