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...Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to found "a greene Country Towne" in 1682-or at least since Karl Marx's First International broke up there...
...Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...
Strip, Rescind, Scrutinize. In this hopelessness and exhilaration Democrats and Republicans around the country went into the closing days of one of the strangest political campaigns on record. Republicans were confident now that they would win more than enough seats to give them control of the House of Representatives. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, already seeing himself Speaker of the House, went on the radio to tell what he would...
...Democratic side there was mostly silence. On the recommendation of his party leaders, Harry Truman did not even make a breath on the cold, unfriendly air. It was one of the strangest performances on record: with defeat staring his party in the face, Harry Truman figuratively taped his lips, apparently did not even intend to stump for hard-pressed Democrats in Missouri. One of his visitors last week reported that he was already talking in terms of what he will do when Republicans run the House...
Just twelve months had passed since the launching of the strangest military occupation in history. In the postwar world twelve defeated nations have had conquering armies quartered on their soil. Japan, alone among them, appeared to be enjoying the experience. She had not, like Germany, been divided into zones, nor had she lost significant sections of her home territory. She had not, like Hungary, been systematically looted, nor did the triumphant enemy live off and destroy the land...