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...Texans wondered which lay more heavily on FTC minds, purgatives or politics. Paced by Politico Hal's key-noting speech at the recent State Democratic Convention (held in Crazy Hotel), the Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...
...Timers. Nobody was surprised that the Willkie campaign attracted many an old-line Democratic politico who was against Roosevelt long before Chicago 1940: angry John O'Connor, victim of the 1938 purge; ex-Senator James Reed of Missouri; Nebraska's Senator Edward Burke, defeated in this year's primary; Stephen Chadwick, former American Legion commander...
...partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt's hurried clasp. Their...
Mahatma Gandhi has lately shown signs of weaseling and wavering around to a position where the Nazis (or Communists) may not find him hard to deal with. The nut-brown little saint-cum-politico now keeps chattering that "Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Naziism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and Fascist tendencies of imperialism. And it is to save such 'democracy' that the war is being fought! There is something hypocritical about it." Such vaguely anti-Ally sentiments from Gandhi represent, a sharp change in attitude...
These declarations coincided with military and politico-military action. Ostensibly the action was intended to finish off the long resistance of China (see p. 20) by cutting off China's Burmese and Indo-Chinese sources of military supply. But the bigger aim was terribly clear. Pressure was applied at every nerve centre of foreign interests...