Word: sequiturs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last sentence of your excellent piece on the Manchester Guardian [TIME, Nov. 4] may have read like a non sequitur to many of your readers, carrying as it does the odd implication that by sending the paper's trust deed to America during the war, the Guardian in some mysterious way guaranteed that the paper would carry on, in C. P. Scott's words, "as a public service and not for private profit." May I fill in the mystery of this non sequitur...
Both sides have colorful banners to wave. It is no longer a sequitur that all Americans are truthful and good because G. Washington chopped down the cherry tree and then 'fessed up. Democracy is not a working dream. It is a method. In terms of actual employment, Hitler looks good beside Roosevelt. Hitler will give you a quick answer--for a nominal fee. Is the fee worth it? This is the question to be decided, not avoided. If it is avoided, Hitler's false argument holds good. As long as these six hundred books advocate change through the democratic method...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...