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Columnist Pegler's column mate Hugh S. Johnson moved in, grunting heavily: ". . . A 30-minute spray of typical Ickiness. . . . A barrage of gas, mud and fireworks...
...Willkie is so eager for a debate ... I suggest that he challenge his running mate, Senator McNary, with whom he is at greater variance . . . than . . . with the President...
...Misiones Territory. Although the German population of Misiones is less than 24% of the total and a majority of the Germans are not Nazis, a wealthy Hitler-minded minority controls most of the region's power plants, dominates its economy by a strangle hold on the mate trade. For these Nazis, Misiones is strategically perfect. It curves up in a thin tongue of land between Paraguay and Brazil; its hills and rivers afford a series of natural defenses in case of civil war. Bounded on the north, east and south by heavily German-populated districts of Brazil...
These good deeds done, generous Adolf Hitler scudded away from sweltering Berlin to cool Bayreuth for four hours of Gdtterddmmerung and a visit with British-born Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the great Richard and a soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation...
...Washington the White House remained silent except for a statement that the President would address the Convention after a Vice-Presidential nominee had been selected. But as the night session grew bitter, as boos greeted Henry Wallace as the President's choice for a running mate, as balloting dragged on toward midnight, another word was given-that the speech would be canceled or postponed if Wallace lost the first ballot...