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...Stabilization of the Balkans, including satisfaction of Italy's claims against Greece (TIME, Aug. 26), and probably a division of Yugoslavia to give Italy the Dalmatian coast - unless Germany was insisting on an Adriatic outlet. Axis stabilization means Axis domination, and Hitler's Walrus and Mussolini's Carpenter had no oysters to spare for Joseph Stalin. That was one reason for the secrecy that clothed last week's conversations...
From this point, Professor Elliott proceeds to a discussion of America's "capacity for democratic cooperation." Essentially his conclusion is that "we have been remiss in not according an outlet for the legitimate emotional desire, so deep-rooted in grown-ups as well as in children, for symbolic participation" in community life...
...Azcarraga wants to keep tidy has many peculiar aspects. Politics provides one of them. During the recent election General Juan Andreu Almazan was never permitted to fling a single amigos mios into a microphone, although his chief rival. General Manuel Avila Camacho, used XEFO, the 5,000-watt official outlet of Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution. Although Don Juan complained that XEFO was breaking the law prohibiting any station from broadcasting political controversies, the station management pointed out with fine Latin logic that as long as it restricted its mikes to Camacho and withheld them from...
After eight years of power, the Democratic Party still had strength. What was lacking as the convention opened in Chicago was an outlet. Silent at the White House, remote on the Potomac, Franklin Roosevelt had dammed the only outlet, presumably would open it in his own good time. Some of his victims cursed the baffling indignity of their position; a few cursed the man who had created and preserved it, simply by letting them assume instead of know that they were there to ratify Nomination...
Last week there was no mystery in the willingness of British parents to let their children go into exile. Less clear was the reason for the U. S. response. One explanation was that U. S. citizens, frustrated in their desire to aid the Allies, had found an outlet for their emotional reaction to the war. Another was that sentimental U. S. citizens could not resist an appeal for aid that involved children. Here and there sophomoric analysts saw it as British propaganda...