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...Road? Italy's underground organizations rely on Allied support. But they feel that Allied statesmen and propagandists have ignored them, even fear that the Allies may dicker with Fascists when Italy is invaded. Wrote the socialist underground La Terza Fronte (The Third Front...
Arnim is unlike most of the Wehr-macht's professional military men in that he comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...
Official public information men, in the past decade, have begun to have kinds of influence and even of authority that used to belong to statesmen alone. Under tyranny they may indeed redouble the frauds of tyranny, as Goebbels did in Germany. But under democracy they may with courage divulge the truths of democracy. A journalist nurtured in an honest tradition has been the wartime Prime Minister of Britain. And in a long view of the matter, it was a victory in itself for American propaganda that Elmer Davis-who patently dislikes propaganda-was made head of the U.S. Office...
Anthony Eden spoke soberly in Ottawa of the need for cooperation among World War II's great powers. In London, exiled statesmen fretted about frontiers not yet won back from the enemy (see col. 2). In Washington, U.S. Under Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister...
...rose Michigan's punctilious, little-known Congressman George Anthony Dondero, 59, to tax his fellow Congressmen for their manners. Out went cigars, down went newspapers and cocked feet as he cried out against smoking, reading, foot-cocking, and the horrid practice of calling one's fellow statesmen by their first names. Two year ago dogged Congressman Dondero made virtually the same speech...