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...bully. The democratic, pro-Allied masses lack leadership but they are showing increasing resentment. But democratic Argentines do not expect a democratic uprising soon. They tell each other that the country is too prosperous, too well-fed. They wryly acknowledge that they will have to get a good deal madder before they find leaders...
Nebraska's plodding Republican Senator Hugh Butler traveled 20.000 miles through Latin America on his own purse last summer, getting madder at the New Deal's Good Neighborliness at every mile. Last week he made two reports to the U.S., one in Reader's Digest ("Our Deep Dark Secrets in Latin America"), the other, a 176-page message to the Senate...
...Every day has been madder than the one before and life literally never has a dull moment. . . . We never go anywhere but we get great attention. . . . They follow us in jeeps, peeps, weapon carriers. We can only date officers and it is always necessary to refuse six dates a night...
Behind the Rising Sun (RKO) is an 88-minute jag of ferocious anti-Japanese propaganda. Based on facts reported in U.S. Correspondent James R. Young's book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...convertible bonds. Usually a rooter for rail debt reduction, Bob Young boiled over when he first saw the ICC plan: Alleghany's huge holdings in MOP common were tossed out entirely, its 5½% bonds were treated almost as badly. When he took another look he got madder still: the big insurance companies (holding the topflight bonds) would control the road...