Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, these were details which might be ironed out. There was a far greater defect. As London's New Statesman and Nation said: "American assistance on such a scale cannot reasonably be expected unless Congress is presented not merely with a demand note from an Amalgamated Union of Beggars, but with convincing evidence that . . . the recipients will cooperate in undertaking to increase their own productivity and their eventual ability economically to stand on their own feet." Washington simply did not feel that the Paris Plan presented that kind of evidence...
...Dear Sumner." Not unaware of the headlines it was about to make, the committee called upon Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, to identify two "Dear Sumner" notes which Mrs. Roosevelt had written to him concerning Eisler in 1939. Eisler, as a refugee music professor from Hitler Germany, was then attempting to get into the U.S. through Cuba, but was being denied a visa as a suspected Communist. With her first note, on White House stationery, Mrs. Roosevelt sent Welles a batch of papers given to her by a friend of Eisler's, a "perfectly honest person...
...Roosevelt sent off a second note: "This Eisler case seems a hard nut to crack. What do you suggest?" This brought another polite brush-off from Welles. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt, now busy with U.N. duties, told newsmen that she had never met Eisler and did not remember writing the notes to Welles. "When I was in the White House," she said airily, "I had hundreds of such requests a month, and, depending on the character of the request, the letters were passed on to the correct Government department...
...final note on the all-around picture, it is interesting is note that with all its advantages last year, the Yale A.A. ran behind too. The Elis continued formal football during the war and had one of the top teams in the cast last fall to lure large crowds into the broad expenses of the Bowl...
...want is comaraderie with the average college boy anyway," said one venerable gendarme dispensing a ticket to a Harvard speedster yesterday who reported the fashion note...