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...have always been careful to present a complete story, and I think you owe it to your pro-Willkie readers to give it to them in this instance, rather than leave them with a false sense of security in the attitude of the nation's press. As a Willkie supporter, I'd like the complete story myself...
Automobiles. The average single man pays for his automobile by the month. Possible draftees now drive 354,000 partly-owned cars, owe about $200 each or $70,800,000, less than 6% of $1,420,000,000 total auto loans. General Motors Acceptance Corp., No. i auto-finance company, figures possible conscripts hold no more than i?% of its contracts. But other auto financiers say they will examine future buyers more carefully, are considering a new type of contract with a co-maker. They may also ask more cash down, larger monthly payments...
Swiss Philosopher de Rougemont's ambitious thesis is that Europe and the Western Hemisphere owe their desperate plight to their over-susceptibility to passionate love. Ancient Greeks and Romans, says he, regarded love as a mental aberration, an unqualified misfortune; Orientals so regard it today. Only in the Western world has it taken a hold in the mores, been accorded respect. Taking Tristan and Iseult as the archetypes of passion, he hangs on their necks more weight than Freud ever hung on Oedipus...
...pacific South Seas last week came a faint echo of Europe's thundering wars. The scattered islands of New Hebrides (off the east coast of Australia), which owe allegiance to Britain & France jointly, repudiated the Government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain in Vichy, pledged their resources and man power to the "free France" of General Charles de Gaulle in London. In nearby French-owned New Caledonia, where Governor Marie-Marc-Georges Pélicier has offered his allegiance to the Pétain Government, the local assembly declared its intention of continuing the war under General...
...Kinsley, do not necessarily represent the Vatican's views) have steadily urged since June. They want the Vatican to take suzerainty over the Holy Land, should Italy seize it. The other horn would be to oppose the governments to which two-thirds of the Church's communicants owe their temporal allegiance...