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President of Allis-Chalmers is stocky, hooknosed, fussy Max Wellington Babb, who was named last week as a contributor to the isolationist America First Committee. Said he: "I am thoroughly in accord with the principles of the America First Committee." The Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...
...Alfange, 16,690; Connolly, 3,985. Next to Joseph Baldwin, the happiest man at this outcome was Wendell Willkie. He was doubly pleased because the trend he had foreseen for the Republican Party seemed confirmed. Joseph Baldwin had won by a bigger percentage than had popular Kenneth Simpson. Isolationists in the Republican Party, who had proclaimed that Willkie's program would bring disaster, had been confounded. Moreover, isolationist strength among Republicans was ebbing. Many a Republican Senator who had been reported ready to fight Willkie for his support for Lend-Lease voted for Lend-Lease...
Impatience with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...that the world is small nowadays; that in this small world the best defense of the U. S. is aid-to-Britain; that the best way to aid Britain is to pass this bill, granting the President enormous additional powers. The opponents' arguments ranged extremely; but significantly, no isolationist said the-hell-with-Britain...
...walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler (Tex.) morning Telegraph, which last month dropped its Johnson column, explained...