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...save the imperiled U. S. S. R., Communists in 1935 postponed the revolution, began to woo. They fashioned a domestic program so broad that no liberally minded citizen or group could oppose all of it all the time, thus were able to claim vast support for "collective security." One stanch unit of the U. S. Front was (and is) the American League for Peace and Democracy. Last year 15,000-odd Manhattanites paraded for it. Last week, the League marshaled only 4,200 (including famed Artist Rockwell Kent...
...stanch individual in the Popular Front was Columnist Heywood Broun, whose American Newspaper Guild was well up front. Last week Heywood Broun recorded his anguish: ". . . The Soviet has here and now contributed to the might and menace of Hitler. . . . Fascism is still deadly, but the popular front now becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible. . . . The masquerade is over. The dominoes are dropped and it now becomes possible to look at the faces of the various ones who pretend to be devoted to the maintenance of democracy...
...Minneapolis Bourbons the demise of the Journal was a death blow. For years it had fought their fight, played down their financial alley. Foe of the late Governor Floyd B. Olson and his Farmer-Labor Party, it was stanch Republican, anti New Deal. Rich with local department store advertising in the lush 1920s, it began to sicken when Depression I set in. Handsome, silver-haired Publisher Carl Jones (an amateur card-trick expert) shuffled his journalistic cards to no avail. To the Star went his acrid Managing Editor George H. Adams (later to return...
...Serraño, was not far off, it was less obvious which side Generalissimo Franco, umpire of the showdown, would favor. It would suit the purposes of the old-time generals to have the monarchy restored; the Falangists are against restoration. Some indication that the Generalissimo, once a stanch Monarchist, was favoring restoration came in the report that the Duke of Maura, now living in Portugal, has been dispatched by General Franco to see former King Alfonso XIII. Alfonso fortnight ago held a "conference" of Spanish Monarchists at Lausanne, Switzerland. It has long been thought that in case...
Senator Borah, of course, was stanch at Senator Johnson's side. So was North Dakota's Gerald ("Neutrality") Nye. They declared they had a minimum of 34 votes, perhaps as many as 60. Thirty-four Senators exercising "every honorable and legitimate means" at their command could filibuster Neutrality far into August's dog days...