Word: stupids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week fell the 25th anniversary of that grim dawn when 80,000 Allied troops started swarming ashore at the Dardanelles to storm the Turkish positions in the hills of Gallipoli. Stupid staff work and indecision spoiled that venture and cost some 9,000 casualties, but the man mostly blamed was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, then as now First Lord of the Admiralty. Turkish and Allied troops, now fraternizing in the Near East, observed the occasion last week by exchanging salutations, especially Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, chief of the Anzac Command,* and Marshal Fervi Cakmak, Chief of the Turkish...
...conversation is the same in Paris as in New York and in London, i.e., how stupid, how inane everyone (themselves included) is, except the enemy. People forget that this is part of war, or of any struggle. In an English election it is always the opponent who has the clever, brilliant, shrewd though wicked leaders and supporters. One's own side, though good intentioned up to a point, is criminally negligent, dense, ill-starred, hopeless...
...proof lies with these lesser groups. Right now they are not doing as good a job of stirring up peace sentiment in the College as the H.S.U. If they think they can help, that the cause of peace would benefit by their support, then their contentious accusations are a stupid way of showing it. They complain that having a C.I.O. man speak for a meeting sponsored in part by the H.S.U. means the sacrificing of peace to politics. Strangely, it is Norman Thomas, their own headliner, who is doing just that. Mr. Quill is willing to speak together with...
Cordell Hull. Last week the prospects of Secretary of State Hull faded-ironically enough, in the moment of his biggest victory (see p. 18). Not one of the Western Democratic Senators who voted against the reciprocal trade agreements was picayune, stubborn, or merely stupid. They reflected the Western electorate's firm belief that the program hurts cattlemen, farmers, miners. No Democratic boss in the West believed last week that the party could win with Mr. Hull, news almost certainly received gratefully by unambitious Mr. Hull, 68. No one in the U. S. saw anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except...
...Bernard Shaw, free of charge, presented Manhattan Caricaturist Jack Rosen with an original self-portrait of G. B. Shaw in a top hat - scrawled on top of a caricature which Rosen had sent him (see cut). Said Shaw in a dedicatory note on the back: "Your caricature is a stupid one. When you are caricaturing a brain worker make his forehead nine-tenths of the picture." Reproved, Rosen tried again...