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...attractions outweighed the handicaps. The News still has prestige as a sort of "New York Times of the Midwest," largely due to its voluminous, generally excellent foreign coverage. It has a tradition of good writing sprung from such ex-Newsmen as Eugene Field. George Ade, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht. And it has a tradition of independence that reaches back to its late great founder, Melville E. Stone. A good man could restore its greatness...
...Chuck Crawfords; if he had shown behind his sharply observed surfaces more of the intricate counterpoint of political machinery in action; if he had made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book's ideal reader...
...rights of innocent passage and free landing . . . must and would be reciprocally agreed as between sovereign nations." Henry Wallace answered his detractor: "I am sure the vast bulk of the Republicans do not want to stir up animosity against either our Russian or English Allies. . . ." In Detroit, Poet Carl Sandburg interrupted a Lincoln Day speech: "I'm sorry for anybody who talks of 'globaloney'. . . ." Eleanor Roosevelt could not resist. Said she: "Well, are we going to have a peaceful world or aren't we. All nations should have free access to the world's travel...
There are also: Sandburg, Saroyan, Wolfe, Dos Passes, Benet, Caldwell, Anderson, Frost. Robinson, Stevens, many others. Say the editors: "It is safe to say that from no other land than ours, within the limits of time we set ourselves, could there have been gathered together a body of writing so various and so vigorous, so serious in intent and so accomplished in craft...
...harps on a few notorious cases of injustice, Native Land is incidentally a powerful reminder of the necessity for guarding the Bill of Rights as a protection for those people who are wantonly crushed in all kinds of struggles. Despite its partisanship, it is as vitally American as Carl Sandburg...