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...liven things up, she decides to summon from Philadelphia the family's favorite relative, tall, handsome Uncle Charlie (Joseph Gotten). But Uncle Charlie, for reasons of his own, is already on the way. He arrives with a large, comfortable halo of presents, money and avuncular good humor. The rest of the family lionizes Uncle. The girl begins to feel a sense of menace...
Next day glib, robust Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Laborite and cofounder (with Sir Stafford Cripps) of the leftist weekly Tribune, rose in Parliament to attack Churchill. Said he: "Mr. Churchill is no longer able to summon the spirit of the British people because he represents policies they deeply distrust." Laborite Bevan was so biliously personal that even London's most liberal columnist, A. J. Cummings of the News Chronicle, called him "an arch-exhibitionist . . . who gave a deplorable exhibition of bad manners, bad temper and bad criticism...
...give up to the Japanese, but high in the councils of Chungking there are those who might make peace and set up with Japan an Asiatic imperialism, with the white man evicted finally and forever. If China sinks farther into the morass of defeat, the Chungking appeasers may summon strength enough to overcome Chiang and have their...
James, who is reported to have called Roosevelt "a blood-stained assassin," at first attempted to have the state summon the President as a witness in his defense, but he was notified that only in capital cases, and trials where punishment is life imprisonment, can witnesses be summoned in his behalf at government expense...
...many of the States. Long a threat to our unity, even in peace-time, State trade barriers are today contributing magnificently toward ham-stringing the accelerated war program. So serious has this sectional bigotry and provincialism become that the President and Mr. Nelson have at last been forced to summon an emergency Federal-State Conference this week in the White House. For months the WPB director has been stymied by the stringent restrictions of State trade barriers which not only have retarded, but in case after case completely stopped the flow of war material as well as of war workers...