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...English-language broadcast by Tokyo radio last week thoughtfully suggested that Colonel Robert R. McCormick's "plan for the absorption by America of all the British countries may perhaps be the best plan to safeguard American interests" (TIME, May 3). Excerpts...
...Just as you and I, Colonel McCormick . . . has both friends and enemies. His enemies brand him as a British-hating arch-isolationist, a publicity-thirsty megalomaniac. To his friends, however, Colonel McCormick is a man of independent will, a man of action, a fearless foe, ready to express himself regardless of consequences. I also assume there must be a group of neutrals who has no definite likes or dislikes about the colonel...
...rate, there is no doubt that Robert McCormick is an extremely charming character. I think America, today needs many more characters like this Chicago veteran. You will recall that a little more than three weeks ago the fighting Chicago newspaper publisher declared that he would start a nationwide editorial campaign for the absorption by the United States of all the British countries...
...native state, will yield to Wisconsin, which the General still claims as home, when the nominating roll call begins. "Can't you visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...
From those less conditioned to Stalinist reflexes, the reactions were different. The New York Times's sober Anne O'Hare McCormick argued that the film "fails utterly to do justice to Russia, grossly misrepresents the United States, and would not sell international cooperation to anybody." Author Max Eastman (Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism) considered it "the high point of a wave of national self-abasement." Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, a onetime Marxist, saw it as a "fraud on the American people...