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...opposition sprouted up & down the country. Feeling blindly for something to fasten to, it clutched and climbed on the solid Chicago organization of General Wood. With sincere isolationists, frightened business and political opportunists, many a political weed twined up: Roosevelt-haters, Bundists, Fascists, Coughlinites. America First chapters sprang up overnight, started their own membership drives. Nickels, dimes, dollars rolled in. From Chicago, it looked breathtaking. The America Firsters in Chicago did not yet realize that their movement had grown out of hand...
...Europe took Hitler's words to heart. The conquered wanted freedom and revenge. Not by prayer, but by civil war, they sought it. The Slav peoples of central and southeastern Europe, as if they heard some far-off blood call of their cousins on the plains of Russia, sprang into bloody action...
...endless stream of endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...
...knew a remedy for Europe's ills: the highly successful Danish educational system and economy. Feature of this system was Denmark's Folk Schools, which taught Danish peasants breadth of vision, thus making them better democrats, by means of poetry, history, religion. From the Folk School movement sprang agricultural schools, cooperatives, a new system of dairy (instead of grain) farming and decentralized industry, which had made Denmark one of the most prosperous nations in Europe...
...from the thought of conscription. Presumably because of pressure from Eire, Britain so far has drafted none of her loyal Irish subjects, but last week Winston Churchill broadly hinted in the House of Commons that conscription for Northern Ireland might be on the way. To arms against bearing arms sprang Northern Ireland Catholics (one-third of the six counties' 1,300,000 population), Laborites, even a section of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews' loyal Unionist Party. In Eire's Dail Prime Minister de Valera this week scolded: "There could be no more grievous attack on any fundamental...