Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a school for hordes of raw recruits. One reason: the Army must keep its few trained units intact for service in the troubled, troublesome Americas. Said clearheaded George Marshall (to the Veterans of Foreign Wars): ". . . We must not become involved by impatience or ignorance in an ill-considered, overnight expansion, which would . . . leave us in a dilemma of confused results, half-baked and fatally unbalanced. . . . We must get down to hard pan and carry out our preparations without vacillations or confusion...
...left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
...line on their Presidents, U. S. citizens have looked harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...
Desperately, helplessly countries did what they could to prepare. In Egypt, Royal-Dutch-Shell Oil Co. fired 700 Italians overnight; Alexandria began evacuating incompetents. Italian laborers and pilots were discharged from the Suez Canal. Greece grew sensitive about vitM Salonika. Rumania called up 100,000 more...
...Washington the Japanese Embassy announced that Japanese envoys to North, Central and South America would meet in Washington this week "to discuss the improvement of trade." The Embassy spokesman underlined press reports from Shanghai to the effect that Japanese in that city had overnight turned honey-sweet towards U. S. citizens: suddenly granted Yangtze River passes which had been refused for nearly three months, suddenly paid war-damage claims which had been outstanding for nearly three years...