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...shrewdest diplomatic moves in India was made last week by a Yankee truck driver...
John Bracken, the shrewdest practical politician western Canada ever produced, was presented last week with leadership of Canada's Conservative Party. A free trader and Canadian Canadian (as distinguished from English Canadians, French Canadians, Scottish Canadians, etc.), Bracken took over on his own terms from the traditionally high-tariff, pro-Empire Tories. For good measure he forced them to change the party name from Conservative to Progressive-Conservative...
...shrewdest aspects of the maneuver was its propagandistic effect. Once again, in plainest terms, the U.S. had informed the people of France that Pierre Laval could not be trusted; that he was an Axis tool; that Americans would help Frenchmen anywhere under any circumstances except when they willingly give outright aid to Hitler...
...Knox statement was the last straw. Two days after the Secretary made his statement, N.E.I. Lieut. Governor General Dr. Hubertus J. van Mook, one of the shrewdest horse traders in the world, arrived in Washington and put the Dutch case strongly and clearly: we will fight, but we need help. Out across the green islands of the Pacific the Dutch Army & Navy were writing his words in action...
...Shrewdest interpretation of the Russian announcements, as well as of recent Russian gestures in the Balkans, was given by longtime Moscow Correspondent Walter Duranty, now in Tokyo for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Wrote he: "What is really coming is a new spurt of diplomatic activity and negotiation between the two countries, for which the Soviet Union and Germany are now engaged in preliminary jockeying. The question involved is ... of closer cooperation and the price to be paid therefor...