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Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...
Some of Author White's more "sophisticated" friends make him rather sick: "I feel sick when I find anyone adjusting his mind to the new tyranny which is succeeding abroad. ... I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth...
Most significant fact about Washington's growing totalitarianism is that it shows the direct effect of the first six months of war on the U.S. people. They no longer begrudge the Government power; they merely resent Government's inefficiency. They resent contradictory estimates of the gasoline and rubber supply, but they accept rationing with good grace...
They gave their pots & pans willingly to the aluminum drive, but resent the fact that the scrap has not yet found its way to smelters. They get maddest, not at the total Government, but at the palladium of democracy and inefficiency, Congress...
...beer. Stopped by a small-town constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician in a bar grumbled audibly about "having to come over to look after this little island," an incensed Irishman flashed back: "Faith, you don't seem very good at looking after your own little islands...