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This Moses-meek reply sounded like the start of the oddest Senate campaign in Illinois history. Democrat Kelly is a close friend of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the politically potent Chicago Tribune. But Republican Brooks-an isolationist until Pearl Harbor, and the man who got a conviction for the alleged murderer of Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle-is the Tribune's darling...
...been thick ever since. One day last autumn a grand jury, investigating the activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish's storeroom...
...found himself with some strange bedfellows in his isolationist bed: some of them had Communist whiskers. He did not care. He remained steadfastly convinced that the Soviet Union's western border, whose defenses he scoffed at, was the last outpost of white supremacy. Even if England went down, .he was confident that the U.S. could get along fine with Hitler's New Order. The New Order, he felt, was riding the triumphant wave of the future...
Said onetime isolationist Editor Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News: "That Colonel's cry . . . should shame and humble every American on the home front. . . . Too much has been said, too many tears shed about the loss of a few ships and some scores of planes at Pearl Harbor. . . . Too little has been said about the much worse blunder of failing a year ago to convert automotive and other peace industries to defense production. By that failure we have lost a thousand planes and tanks and ships for every one lost at Pearl Harbor...
...advertising-about half that of the Tribune-consists largely of "new accounts," i.e., those who have not advertised before. Meanwhile the smart Tribune misses no bets. Pulling out all the patriotic stops, it has encouraged Chicago to let isolationist bygones be bygones with colored front-page cartoons and maps, bigger Washington and war coverage. Last week it started a $5,000 contest based on Tribune comics-hitting the comics-weak Sun where it hurts most...