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When Adolf Hitler moved his troops into Norway, U. S. public opinion welled up again. Republican White, Kansas delegate to three Republican Conventions, hustled to Manhattan to try to keep an isolationist plank out of the Republican platform. On May 1, when the Allies were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned...
...Shuksan outing last week went three competent climbers: H. Karl Boyer, 28, of Seattle, who fought in the Spanish Civil War; Anne Cedarquist, 22, a chemist who once climbed California's hazardous Lassen Peak; Faye Plank, 37, a Bremerton librarian. Miss Cedarquist had climbed Rainier twice this year, Boyer once. They expected to be up to Shuksan's peak and safely down by nightfall...
Roped together, Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more...
...satisfied smile. He was now certain of 900 delegates out of 1,100; John Nance Garner's career heeded only a suitable monument; Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had been bought off ten days before by a personal promise from Franklin Roosevelt that the foreign-policy plank would be as isolationist as Mr. Wheeler. Maryland's Millard Tydings was stubborn but negligible...
Next, instead of going ahead with the formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members...