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Vocal portions of Canada's population were unimpressed. Veterans' organizations, in particular, denounced Ottawa by letter and telegram. But the sharpest retort to the Prime Minister came from ex-Minister Ralston...
...Proper Retort. In Manhattan's Grand Central induction center, a psychiatrist saw his opportunity, eagerly asked draftee Henry Proper, peacetime automobile salesman, if he could find him a good used car. Replied Proper: "Are you crazy...
...Washington Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, without naming Fuller, took time out to retort testily that the campaign had been a "great strategic victory." The truth, more probably, is somewhere in between...
Communists in Chungking retort that they: 1) cannot dissolve their armies and submit to Kuomintang military, civil and economic control without a guarantee of their survival as a political party; 2) fight the Japs wherever and whenever possible; 3) live under constant threat from 23 of the best of China's 113 Central Armies plus 45 others in reserve...
...former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem Dei gloriam. But even in quarries men lose their lives. . . ." The most telling retort was written by one David Naylor: "May I enquire if any of the gentlemen so deeply concerned over the ancient monuments of Rome have an only son whom they are prepared to sacrifice on the altar of St. Peter's? If not, may I then ask them to moderate...