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Through the Pipeline. Franklin Roosevelt's angry outburst was designed 1) to back up Cordell Hull, who had called Pearson's statements "monstrous and diabolical falsehoods," 2) to reassure Moscow, still the suspicious, explosive unknown in United Nations diplomacy. Yet the' outburst left one problem unsolved, raised several new ones...
These Are the Men takes news shots of the Nazi leaders howling their wares (in German) and puts into their mouths (in English) thumbnail autobiographies, each of which is a monstrous self-indictment. This shrewd cinema effect is muddled more than helped by a gifted but rhetorical commentary by Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas...
Chief target of Hull's sizzling attack was Columnist Drew Pearson, who printed the charge that Hull and other Department of State officials were blindly hostile to Russia. Crackled the Secretary: "Monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
...Monstrous Pun. Like the late James Joyce, O'Nolan is a master of the monstrous pun. Erudite, ironic, he devotes many a column to the hilarious systematic destruction of literary cliches, to parodies of Eire's leprechaun literature and the red-taped verbiage of Government service, to absurd home-economics hints. He is an unsparing, beloved critic of devotees of Irish, who overuse Eire's national tongue; a subtler critic of the clerics, who are not unaware of his innuendo and high irony...
...grinder). A Nazi war correspondent wired the Völkischer Beobachter: "Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces and a few anti-tank guns. But many of our units managed to keep...