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...personal freedom and our homes. We cannot get along without the rest of the world and we know it, but we fail to see that we cannot try to adapt ourselves to a changing world and still keep our own faith in those particulars which are important. We resent the term "Isolationist" as typical of the "weasel words" used by crooked politicians, for we are trying to be "Realists" as opposed to those whose thinking is based upon a possibly outmoded European setup. We are not Pros for anything except our own general scheme of Democracy...
...Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...
Everyone knows that the H.S.U. leans to the left, and expects that all of its activities will be pointed in that direction. It is obvious that much of its driving force originates in its considerable bloc of Young Communists and fellow travelers. But only a few resent this. They charge that H.S.U. policy is vicious because it appears to follow the Kremlin, and cite as an example the fact that last year the H.S.U. was asking for collective security, and now is on an isolationist tack. The answer to that is that the H.S.U. has learned well the lesson...
...voters, Montanans seem to be pretty unpredictable, though they do like visitors and resent being patted on the head, if you know what I mean...
...John Steinbeck is successful; his work is powerful propaganda; I love his little red colt [The Red Pony]. But I resent-as I resent the bathos of Dickens-John Steinbeck's attempt to engage my sympathies by means of "phony pathos." He has this same fault in Of Mice...