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Until last week, Gerald Nye had not harangued a big isolationist audience with a big isolationist speech since the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1941, in Pittsburgh, when he sweatily, stubbornly refused for hours to believe that the Japs had really attacked Pearl Harbor...
...Just as you and I, Colonel McCormick . . . has both friends and enemies. His enemies brand him as a British-hating arch-isolationist, a publicity-thirsty megalomaniac. To his friends, however, Colonel McCormick is a man of independent will, a man of action, a fearless foe, ready to express himself regardless of consequences. I also assume there must be a group of neutrals who has no definite likes or dislikes about the colonel...
...canary. Further, A.F. of L. will immediately become the predominant labor bloc in the country, with a membership approaching 7,000,000 as against C.I.O.'s 5,000,000. And finally, John Lewis will have boosted himself into a new strategic position to play politics (and probably bitter isolationist politics) in the election...
Beefy Senator Bennett Champ Clark, isolationist from Missouri who voted against the extension of Selective Service four months before Pearl Harbor, paid a token installment on a political grudge against a top-flight soldier last week. He got the Senate to postpone its confirmation of Lieut. General Ben Lear's rank...
...indicted in recent years for assorted civic crimes. In two decades four Hamtramck mayors, one local State Senator and pecks of small political potatoes have gone to prison on liquor, vice and graft counts. When one mayor left jail, his constituents re-elected him, promoted him to be an isolationist Congressman...