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...Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story of France's shame to the world's far corners...
...Allied situation in the Far East being what it is--decidedly critical--Herr Goebbels must do plenty of laughing when American papers, under banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...
Last week these wordly-wise politicians, newspapermen, experts, used such emotional terms to describe what was wrong with the people. There had been nothing quite like it in U.S. political history. Many a time in the past newspapers had run a thundering headline over some smaller attack on some smaller group: TAMMANY FLAYED BY REFORMER, or SENATORS FLAY BIG BUSINESS. But if last week's attacks, complaints, warnings, exhortations, condemnations of the people were boiled down to one headline, it would read: THE PEOPLE FLAYED...
Last week some 20 top-flight newspapermen rushed from plant to plant to view the outward evidences of that change. From 9 in the morning until dusk they raced from plant to plant in cars that moved at 70 m.p.h. They grabbed lunch on the way from the tank arsenal to the River Rouge plant. They saw, on the outskirts of Detroit, where a cornfield flourished a few months ago, a tank factory where huge sections of armor plate and steel castings moved down a production line five miles long...
...Ford production chief, whom Donald Nelson appointed to see to it that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...