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...forgotten," wrote one Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
...Micronesia, each of the three great archipelagoes (Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) has some atolls or mountain tops which the U.S. wants: Kwajalein and Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Truk and Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has announced no policy for their trusteeship or control-because the military and civilian departments within the Government are fighting with each other. Final disposition of the islands must await the signing of a peace treaty-and the Russians are already warming up a propaganda campaign against "U.S. imperialism...
...years of breath-taking success, these have carried him through, two Broadway musicals (Lady in the Dark, Let's Face It), two movies (Up In Arms, Wonder Man), 39 weeks of a new kind of radio show and numberless vaudeville appearances. This year, such activity will bring him more than...
When V-J day finally came, it was an anticlimax. The war had been over for 18 days; the ceremony on the scrubbed deck of the Missouri was historic, certainly, but it seemed a long way away. President Truman, who had already issued numberless historic statements in his four and a half months in office, had little new to say. But he said it, sitting in the radio room of the White House, in tones of such sincerity that his 35,000,000 listeners were impressed...
Thus, while any future success of UNRRA may possibly be credited to international cooperation, its failures will almost surely be laid at the door of the U.S. And in its 18 months of existence, UNRRA has been called a failure numberless times, by friends and enemies alike...