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Salty old (71) Seth Richardson was good & mad. He was, by his own lights, as dyed-in-the-wool a conservative as a man could be-a wealthy Washington corporation lawyer, a Republican, an avowed isolationist. His Republicanism went way back -to the Hoover administration, when he was Assistant Attorney General, and beyond that, back to his days in North Dakota. Now his critics in Congress were questioning his loyalty...
Personal Affection. Despite his flippancies and irrelevancies, Iddon usually tries to be kind to the U.S. in his own way, often shows a sharp editorial insight. He has cautioned Britons against being shaken by the Anglophobia of such "choleric" isolationist newspapers as the Hearst press, Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, and has admonished his readers: "Remember this personal affection of Americans for the British when you read the melancholy stories of abuse...
...first heady aftermath of MacArthur's speech, many a Republican chorused praise ("magnificent," "tremendous") without apparently realizing all that MacArthur had said. Indiana's irascible isolationist Senator William Jenner seemed to think that MacArthur had opposed military aid to Europe: "Ex-President Hoover and the Republicans in Congress bought us 85 precious days in their fight on troops to Europe. MacArthur has bought us another, perhaps a final chance, to destroy the Administration's proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved...
...right to bump one Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Never before in modern times had the free press of the world raised its voice in such a thunderous defense of press freedom itself. From Bertie McCormick's isolationist Chicago Tribune to the global-minded New York Times, from Brazil's Correio da Manhá to Belgium's Catholic La Libre Belgique, editors drove their sharpest phrases into the tough hide of Argentina's Juan Perón last week for his suppression of La Prensa (TIME...