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...affairs turns out to be a brilliant and bitter catfight. As a tiger among lesser cats, Beard claws all his enemies in this particular chapter to death. Beard's opponents have fictitious names, but it is easy to identify them with the beliefs of Dr. James Shotwell, Clarence Streit, Ely Culbertson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Pearl Buck and others. The weakness of this foreign-policy symposium derives from its satirical intent, which is not in keeping with The Republic as a whole. Walter Lippmann, for example, could undoubtedly make out a good case for an Anglo-American understanding...
CLARENCE K. STREIT...
...TIME, Aug. 25) seemed as blurred and fuzzy as the inexpert newsreels which gave the U.S. public its only presence at that meeting. This meeting might possibly be the first broad hint that some day the two nations might draw together-perhaps in some sort of federation like Clarence Streit's Union Now, perhaps in some other form, perhaps in a friendship which would require no blueprint at all. But right now their meeting chiefly concerned the concrete present...
This book confirms reports that Clarence Streit (Union Now with Britain) has converted Frederick L. Schuman (Night Over Europe). Since some 5,000 readers faithfully buy all Professor Schuman's books on current history, his conversion must be taken as something of an event. It may also be taken as a timely warning of what happens when an idea like Union Now falls among doctrinaires...
Newspapermen who thought they saw the influence of Clarence Streit's Union Now on Henry Ford asked him if he had got his idea from the book. No, said Henry Ford. It was an old idea but a good one. He'd been mulling it over for the last 20 years...