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Actually, Mr. Parish's position is not so toploftical as that. What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico. Failing that, he would rather preserve his principles and his face than accept a token payment...
...arming of merchant ships; that an amendment to permit U.S. ships to enter so-called combat zones would be hard-fought; that isolationist mail had slumped since the President's "shoot-on-sight" speech; that Congressional isolationists were climbing on the Administration bandwagon. The strategists decided to revert to the old tactic of stirring up the letter writers of the U.S., to flood the mails and wires with threats and complaints to Congress and the President...
...both interventionists and isolationists ask: Does the President mean to keep the U.S. out of war no matter what happens to Britain? Does the President mean to let Britain go after all? His declaration of aid for Russia did not support this view. But the theory that he would revert to a new, super-New Deal isolationism if he came to believe Britain's cause hopeless has seeped underground in Washington for a long time. It flourished among New Dealers even during periods when the President, being assailed as a warmonger, was damning isolationism. They chattered that...
Last week Dr. Stanley also reviewed his recent efforts to find which segments of the huge molecules are responsible for their virulent nature. Subjecting the molecules to chemical changes, he has produced new virus strains, thus in effect creating a new disease. Perhaps fortunately, the new-viruses so far revert to their original form in the second generation. But Dr. Stanley cheerily told his colleagues that he may yet invent some new disease...
...does nothing about raising any more money, the Smoker this April may revert to the old style, in vogue several years back, in which it was merely an occasion to get the whole class together, sing songs, and listen to addresses by Faculty members and prominent classmates. These parties were not at all musical variety shows, but provided a genial and entertaining evening at a very low cost...