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Apprehensions. Arthur Krock, able Washington analyst for the Times, and longtime friend and admirer of Secretary of State Hull, could let neither friendship nor personal admiration stand in the way of expressing his own alarm at the U.S. drift into danger. Arthur Krock had found on all sides such disturbing cause for concern that he insisted "only a clear and candid statement by the President or Mr. Hull can remove these apprehensions...
What were Mr. Krock's apprehensions? "Because of the fog that masks our policy and has produced diplomatic inaction . . . Soviet Russia will dominate the postwar structure . . . that domination exists superficially already...
...Pundit Krock urged that "If we have a postwar policy toward Europe, including the disposition of Germany, the time is overdue to state it. If we have not yet formulated such policies, it should be done at once lest events, including strong moves by Soviet Russia, render them obsolete and ineffectual before they can be stated...
...home everyone was on pins & needles. The papers were filled with accounts of the murder by a tri-sexualist of his wife, his boy friend and himself. Eleanor Roosevelt said we must have faith. Mayor LaGuardia urged New Yorkers not to panic. Arthur Krock wrote a story based on a report from a high official who could not be quoted. When the President was finally asked just what was cooking, he said everyone must be patient...
Democrats tried to dismiss Kentucky's clincher as "local issues." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, who used to live in the Fourth himself, judiciously summed up: "If the result did not foreshadow a certain Republican victory next year, it increased the prospect...