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...Springfield, enabled Tom Dewey to pay the traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
...remind the Senator [Hatch] that it is exceedingly dangerous to go back into the yesterdays and take ancient words from their place in history and give them isolated interpretation as of today. . . . I give him the example of the statement made by President Roosevelt on the eve of the 1940 election: 'I tell you fathers and mothers of America again and again and again that your sons will not be sent into foreign wars...
Enough dust swirled over the tank-churned roads of Normandy to remind ex-Desert Fox Erwin Rommel of Africa. But there the resemblance ended. There was no room among the copses, apple orchards, and hedge-crossed fields of Calvados for the great sweeps of "land battleships" that Rommel had used in the wastes of Libya...
...like Hollywood. It is a dull and enervating place. And the girls are not half so lovely as they are cracked up to be. They have a hard and anxious look about them." What he did like was the mountaineers of West Virginia, whose reticence and modesty remind him of people in remote parts of Ireland. Even better, Fitzgerald likes to stroll around Harlem. "The Negroes there seem to live so casual a life. And there is much in a casual life...
...Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...