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...loudest complainers was Columnist Arthur Krock, who used to be a White House favorite himself, won a Pulitzer Prize (1938) for an exclusive interview with President Roosevelt. Though Mr. Krock's words might be a cluster of sour grapes, they were filled with the seeds of righteousness. Said Krock: "An administration which is operating under the most democratic form of Government in the world has once again told its story through unofficial spokesmen instead of telling the story itself...
Columnist Arthur Krock of the New York Times made a quick trip to Chicago and came back amazed. Wrote he: "Neither indifference or complacency could be found, and such criticism as was expressed was that Washington has not yet realized how much it can ask and get from the people...
...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...
...Washington official who thought OFF almost as absurd as the Herald Tribune made it sound was Wild Bill Donovan, who, according to New York Times's Arthur Krock, had dreamed up an ingenious idea: an immense glass globe, lighted from within, to show President Roosevelt the disposition of all the world's armies, navies and air forces, and their positions from day to day, the economic resources of every theater of war, changes of population and their racial origins, war production in industrial areas-all projected on the surface of the globe in shining Technicolor from films inside...
Said Wendell Willkie, as he left the White House: "That's a proposal out of the dark ages. It would set the cause of emancipation of women back 500 years." Wrote scholarly Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times: "It puts a premium on divorce, celibacy, a lower birth rate and a mercenary attitude toward the estate of marriage." Wrote 76-year-old Arthur Graham Glasgow, noted gas technologist, in a letter to the New York Times: "Such discrimination is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium ... to living...