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Busy boning up on Japan, Mrs. Vining is also collecting children's classics to take with her. Says she: "I will teach the Crown Prince the stories every American schoolchild knows, stories of Washington and of Longfellow and of American thoughts and ideals. The emphasis will be on a world without war, and nations working together for peace...
...Nothing But Literature." "Willie" Yeats was born in the ghost-rich region of Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death...
...every schoolchild know what U.S. foreign policy was? General Wood and the America Firsters were certainly not schoolchildren. If every schoolchild could translate the honor, rights, interests and well-being of the U.S. people into terms of foreign policy, many a troubled U.S. citizen in the audience would be willing that such a youthful prodigy should lead them...
Last week no interventionist Congressman, debating repeal of the Neutrality Act, could believe that Congress would vote for war. But if the U.S. was fighting to defend her honor, as President Roosevelt said, if every schoolchild knew it, if the shooting had started, why could not such a vote be taken? Somewhere between the hard common-sense drama of General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed...
...with Germany. But he did not accept the other half of the General's challenge-that he ask Congress to declare that a state of war exists. There was no sign that General Wood expected him to. No isolationist could believe that "every schoolchild knows what our foreign policy is." But at last it seemed that President Roosevelt was beginning to state it in terms that even schoolchildren could grasp...