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President Roosevelt." Said Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, at Raleigh, N. C.: "The plain people of today adore Franklin Roosevelt." Discordant notes: ex-Treasury Under Secretary John W. Hanes, in Dallas: "I love and admire, as do you . . . John Nance Garner." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in Denver: "I've been asked to run. Haven't made up my mind...
...frankly puzzled. Police were unwontedly vague. No concerted, planned roundup of any suspected group ensued. Arrests in Munich were numerous but unsystematic: the police, evidently not knowing whom to arrest, clapped this & that one into jail-among them two American reporters, Chicago Tribune's Ernest Pope and John Raleigh...
...last week Miss Sally Bright, a deputy U. S. marshal at Raleigh, had a safe and simple chore to do at North Carolina's Central Prison. She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington...
...Others (nonCommunists) who now aid Convict Beal: U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette's cousin Suzanne, Author Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia), Raleigh Editor Jonathan Daniels...
This insufficiency was not a question of scale, but the fact that Journey's End is a study of the English public-school code in wartime rather than of war itself. Its middle-aged schoolmaster Osborne, its eager schoolboy Raleigh respond to duty mindlessly, in a series of conditioned reflexes; they go to their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict...