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Last week the combination of Lend-Lease and Yugoslavia suggested an answer to Pundit Walter Lippmann: Britain could not have landed in Greece without the assurance of U. S. aid. Without the promise of supplies, the prospect for Yugoslavia would have been so hopeless that no national resistance could have been organized. He wrote...
...When Pundit Dorothy Thompson read this, she found it "full of social significance." Wrote she to Author Hobson: "It preaches the only important moral, social and economic lesson, namely: that too much of a good thing is too much. Only think how well off Mr. Hitler would have been if he had been satisfied with a dachshund and a Pomeranian, but no, he also had to have a Scotty and a great Dane, and I give you my word, if we are not careful, he is going to go after a Mexican hairless. And with them all on the lead...
Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
Last week the Gallup Poll (which had previously shown that President Roosevelt had the support of an unprecedented 71% of the electorate) showed in preliminary figures that only 54% endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, most of them with modifications. The discrepancy was significant. To Pundit Walter Lippmann opposition to the bill was a refusal to admit the importance of the crisis. To Pundit Mark Sullivan it was a sign of confusion over the objectives of the bill itself. But whatever course of action the U. S. chose, its attitude had all the earmarks of a gigantic national self-deception...
...Basso Orlandus Wilson began singing together in Norfolk, Va.'s Booker T. Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...