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Said the liberal New Statesman and Na tion: "Moscow is not impressed by the expedition to Spitsbergen (see p. 20). . . . We have command of the sea; have we not the troops available even for 'beard-singeing' operations? Are there no bases worth denying to the enemy? Uneasiness is inevitable in view of the record of the War Office...
...exciting." That is a remarkable assertion, even for TIME, and interesting if true. It can't well be argued without the protagonists' defining what they mean by Christian goodness and that seems to allow a wide interpretation. Let me suggest, however, that there are individuals who are naïve enough to associate Christian goodness with such statements as the credo of John D. Rockefeller Jr. published in the same issue of TIME, also with President Roosevelt's widely applauded four freedoms, also with the professed reasons of the Allies for fighting this...
Russia's politically naïve many and politically cynical few may have swallowed this without even a gulp of tea, but outside of Russia it did not go down so well. Croaked the London Daily Mirror's caustic Columnist Cassandra: "Come off it, you gnarled old humbug! If ever a man picked up the starting gun and fired it to throw the world into war, that man was Comrade J. Stalin. . . . We can do without this hypocritical bilge, Comrade...
...romped off with the tennis championship of the Bolivarian Olympics in Colombia. The following year, he won Argentina's River Plate tournament, the Wimbledon of South America. Last summer the Ecuadorian Government sent its beloved little Pancho to the U.S. to compete in the na tional championship at Forest Hills. Green on grass, young Segura did not last one round. But he stayed in the U.S., under the wing of Manhattan's Hispano Tennis Club, to try again this year...
These are certainly times that try men's souls but, fortunately, there is still in America such a naïveté to make a foreigner, like myself, smile quite often...