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...York Herald Tribune practically lined up with the British and French, and the Times went the whole way: "At last there is a democratic front. . . . Inevitably we are more deeply engaged in the conflict." The columnists reverted to type. Dorothy Thompson saw the world revolution coming nearer, Westbrook Pegler went yah! at the Communists, General Johnson was for letting Europe blow itself up, and Heywood Broun, hitherto a believer in the democratic front, began preaching pure pacifism. Said Eleanor Roosevelt: "Peace may be bought today at too high a cost in the future." The Communist press made itself silly trying...
...Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when the New Deal dropped charges of income tax evasion against him, on grounds that there had been "a change of atmosphere" in Louisiana. When such cynical atmosphere sniffers as Columnist Westbrook Pegler noted Weiss tooting a tin trumpet in Philadelphia in June 1936, vowing undying loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt and, incidentally, plumping down 20 solid delegates' votes, they termed this incident "The Second Louisiana Purchase." (In January 1939, Weiss quietly paid the Internal Revenue Bureau $38,746.10 in back taxes...
ARTHUR JAMES PEGLER Madison, Conn...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
...newspaperman who never made more than $100 a week, Arthur Pegler is a little baffled by the money some people get. His younger son grew up to be an advertising man with a big income, and that was all right with him. But for Westbrook to make $46,000 a year writing for newspapers is to Arthur Pegler a stupendous joke on somebody. Mr. Pegler calls Westbrook "Buddy...