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...Republican Leo Allen, who has kept U.M.T. bottled up in his House Rules Committee, said coldly that there was "no more prospect" for a vote now than there had been before. The President was damned on all sides. In a normal world, his program would have sunk without a trace...
...Cruel Spirit. The truth of his statement was illustrated when Berlin's City Assembly met to debate the quiet terror which has gripped Berlin's Soviet sector for months. Anti-Communists have been disappearing daily, without a trace. Related Frau Annedore Leber, a Socialist deputy: "Today again I had a strange visitor who wanted to know about my political life and what sort of guests come to my house. That is why I am as much concerned about the fate of Maniu, Petkoff and Masaryk as I am about the fate of my closest friends. . . . There...
...Pope" opened our door and said to the shed owner with him: "Are these the boys?" The man looked us over, looked at the coats on the beds, and said "No." But "George A." wasn't fooled. He stood coking at us for a moment with just the trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth, hen shut the door and left. Soon he came jack alone and said: "Thee will please be in my office after Assembly tomorrow." He knew darn well that two boys [like us] would never normally be cracking a Latin book...
...would, old Armyman Stimson could not hide his real convictions. Though he found Navy Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...
...Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party) had successfully challenged the government in last fall's by-elections (TIME, Dec. 1), and old Dev himself. Young Sean, whose early life had been spent in the outlawed Irish Republican Army and whose father had been executed by the British, disavowed any trace of anti-Britishism, but he was vaguely against Dev's policy of keeping Eire in the British pound sterling zone...