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...Republican presidential candidate, hammering in the last week of his campaign with renewed intensity at the third term and national defense issues, declared that President Roosevelt had failed to build an adequate defense while engaging in "reckless flights into the field of diplomacy...
With their foreign market already lost, the movies are getting pretty reckless. They say "Nazi" and "Fascist" and "Ribbentrop" as easily as if they were the names of cocktails. In line with this spirit of adventure, Hollywood showed up last week with a document, a drama, a comedy, none of which pulls its punches when it mentions the new order in Europe, all of which are better for their courage...
...Flynn vehemently denied all responsibility, declared: "The circular was not submitted to the publicity division of the National Committee for its approval prior to its issuance." Neither he nor Charles Michelson had known a thing about it, Mr. Flynn maintained. Said he: "I am chagrined to think that some reckless individual has done such a disservice to our great President and Party as to issue this stupid document...
...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...
Foreign Policy. Willkie favored aid to Great Britain and China, approved the destroyers deal (but condemned the way the deal was made by President Roosevelt), favored the acquisition of Pacific air bases, condemned reckless and incendiary statements in foreign affairs, executive secrecy in their conduct. He argued that a prosperous U. S. would have strengthened the democratic world, quoted the warning that Winston Churchill made in 1937: "The Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States . . is leading the world back into depression. . . . Even the most enthusiastic New Dealer might ask himself whether...