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Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
...press was divided on the Kelland Plan. Columnist Raymond Clapper greeted it with huzzahs; the Cleveland Plain Dealer sniffed a new "super-imperialism." But on one fact press and politicians agreed: here was a concrete proposal...
...Guardists and anti-Willkieites. But on the first ballot, Schroeder was tied with Washington's hustling, young (35) Fred E. Baker. On the second ballot, Fred Baker jumped into the lead. Then retiring Chairman Joseph W. Martin and the Committee's pugnacious publicist, Clarence Budington Kelland, got to work. In a two-hours' recess, they preached the inevitability of compromise. When the meeting was resumed, Candidates Schroeder and Baker walked down the aisle arm in arm, simultaneously announced their withdrawal. Mr. Spangler was elected by acclamation...
Among U.S. citizens who learned of the appointment by reading the news in the paper was the nation's foremost Republican, Wendell Willkie. Among those who thought the appointment a bad one was the Herald Tribune. When Bud Kelland, making his first pronouncement as a GOPundit, declared that it was every citizen's bounden duty, even in wartime, "to engage vigorously in politics," the Herald Tribune let out a growl and jumped...
...Kelland was so busy being a Republican in the last year," the Herald Tribune snarled, "that he could not seem to get excited about the German menace or the Japanese menace or any other national issue. While Mr. Willkie was pleading for a truce in politics with respect to foreign affairs, Mr. Kelland was kicking the Administration in the shins. . . . Now he is out pleading for politics and more politics. He does not say criticism . . . but politics. Perhaps a wronger choice could have been made by Mr. Martin. But we can't think just how. . . . The Republican Party...