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Public reaction in Argentina was a deepening of dislike for the U.S. Franklin Roosevelt had hopefully said that "the vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions." But a Buenos Aires audience rose to boo and catcall insults when Hull appeared in a newsreel shot of the Dumbarton Oaks conference...
...three months American Export Airlines, the only U.S. line besides Pan American Airways even to try to fly outside the U.S. before the war, has maintained a steadfast silence about its attitude toward international aviation after the war. When Am Ex did not collaborate with the 16 domestic airlines that began downbeating for lots of postwar competition last July, many observers concluded that Am Ex agreed with Pan Am that competition among U.S. lines for world airways would lead to disaster. Last week Am Ex's board chairman and president, William Hugh Coverdale, broke this misleading silence...
...Munich days, when Winston Churchill was languishing in the political purgatory reserved for those whom the British consider erratic, he had one stanch and steadfast follower-Irish-born, Australian-educated Brendan Bracken, now Britain's able Minister of Information...
...tells the truth in dark days as well as bright. That is why his people follow so confidently when he leads. That is why his allies are his steadfast comrades in arms. That is why our country and his will work together for a greater security for each other and for the others who love freedom throughout the world...
...editor as well as pastor (his Christian Herald, potent Protestant monthly, has a circulation of 250,000). In both capacities he has consistently espoused the down-to-earth view of religion, shown little patience with unpractical applications of faith. He stood out among U.S. Protestant leaders for a steadfast refusal to espouse pacifism after World War I. He still finds pacifism "immoral and unchristian." To those who profess it, believing they thereby follow Jesus' teachings literally, Poling quotes from P. W. Wilson's Newtopia to point out that Jesus asked nothing of society, had no home, no money...