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Cordell Hull laid his case plainly before Congress and the doubting Jenkinses. Said he: "What we do ... will be looked upon [by other nations] as a signpost pointing to the path they can expect us to follow. Repudiation . . . would be taken as a clear indication that this country, which in war is bearing its full share of responsibility, will not do so in peace...
...great signpost which Willkie saw required courage to follow. Says...
...eyebrows were raised, either in surprise or indignation, when the tired, lightweight 1935-elected House of Commons almost unanimously voted to postpone Britain's general election for another year.* No one except bumptious Independent Bill Brown compared Parliament to the Reichstag, or intimated that this might be a signpost on the road to British fascism...
...libretto went to his close friend Paul Horgan, poet, novelist, artist, author of the Harper prize novel, The Fault of Angels, other fiction about the Southwest. The resulting A Tree on the Plains is a musically modest opera, occasionally rising to heights of beauty, mainly important as a signpost that opera is turning from an exotic plant into a wayside flower, part of the American scene...
Into pigeonholes, filing cases, desk drawers in Washington, last week, went a slim, 18-page pamphlet labeled: "After Defense-What?" It will not be forgotten. Social planners, economists, Congressmen will take it out again, read and re-examine it as a signpost to a new world...