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...Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with...
...argued that while U.S. troops are in the field, the U.S. must "use our bargaining power to wring democratic, anti-imperialistic concessions from our allies." People all over the world are "electrified by our might" but "dismayed to hear that the voice of this giant is only a tiny squeak in the councils of the victorious powers...
Three days later, War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes published a long, dramatic statement, arguing: "We have the enemy on the ropes; he is dazed and his knees are buckling." Then he ordered a pip-squeak move: to place ceilings on employment in all nonessential industries, hoping thereby to send 200,000 workers to war plants. The Washington Post assigned half its staff to write huff-puff stories along General Somervell's line. But the Post and the General were struggling against a tide...
...These are elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa have learned to keep quiet. Lions roar, monkeys chatter and even crickets squeak louder than is reasonable. The trees contain doves which croak and gurgle constantly...
Author Hay was a science master when readers noticed his first novel, Pip (1907), a sentimental journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...