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...first editorial in a leading Boston paper says, in substance, that we need a navy big enough to insure peace. With what singular case can this paper soar to the heights of asinity! This smoky contradiction implies that we need a bigger navy, but just to satisfy everybody, a sop is thrown peacewards. A big navy-of-course can only lead to peace. But perhaps there are a few people left who are so dense that they can't quite cope with this subtlety...
...Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell did not want to leave the Department of Commerce, hung on there from week to week by repeatedly promising Secretary Roper that very shortly he would produce evidence...
...latest cinematic March of Time is an excellent sop to U. S. ignorance of Mexican affairs. Even U. S. Catholics, if they are candid, will admit that ecclesiastical control in Mexico has not been an unmixed blessing. The disestablishment of a church is a painful process in any country but is that any reason for presenting only the most lurid details, without any attempt at historical analysis? Give the Revolutionary Government of Mexico...
...Sop. "Simply one maneuver in the steady retreat of the New Deal Administration before the silver gang," said the New York Herald Tribune. And most disinterested observers agreed that the President had jacked up the price of silver principally to forestall a silverite assault in Congress. However it was a trivial sop. U. S. producers nowadays turn out only about 26,000.000 oz. of silver a year and their bonus from the price increase will be less than...
...sop to Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, disarmed as was Germany by post-War treaties, the Conference agreed to "inform" all European nations of their "desires" (i. e. to rearm). As a moral lesson to Germany, the Powers intend to grant to the three disarmed nations, after "friendly negotiation," the kind of rearmament they rebuke Hitler for having "seized...