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...hastily marshalled their lobbies and actively joined the howling chorus against partition. In a few days Representative Austin announced to the U.N. that the United States would not support partition by force. However important the economic and strategic motives for this complete about face may seem to American statesmen, they do not, in any way, justify such a complete subjugation of morals to expediency...
...damage a Palestine debacle would do to the United Nations. A speedy, well-policed partition would enhance its prestige immeasurably, while a week policy will turn the U.N. into little more than a watery organization for completely sovereign nations. The United Nations is on the block today, but the statesmen still refuse to enforce partition. They pray for a last minute reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Reconciliation is hopeless...
Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
Winchell took his scolding without a word. Not so Pegler, who was still muttering last week. "The Enquirer may not know," said Peg in self-defense, "that, as a young reporter, I saw many statesmen, diplomats and soldiers in Europe. I have seen most of them since...
...solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...