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...untrustworthiness of Axis diplomacy. Mankind has faced this same problem at other times. The classic example is Napoleon. England signed a peace with him in March, 1802. That peace was formally breached fourteen months later, but it had never been a true peace. It was only a partial truce. Even if Hitler sincerely wanted peace, it is doubtful whether he could maintain it. The German and English attitudes and ways of life are too opposed, at present, to be reconciled for any length of time. Furthermore, the Axis philosophy, government, and economy is based on war. It must expand...
Inconclusive as this battle of words was, it proved that Election Day had brought no truce between the New Deal and the press, and it set up a line along which they might be preparing to fight it out. Said Editor Herbert Agar of the pro-Roosevelt Louisville Courier-Journal: "If I understand the Secretary correctly, I do not think he has a strong point. There is a lot to say against the press, but the fact that it is against an individual does not prove it is not free...
When Great Britain went to war her political parties made peace. They agreed that for the duration vacated parliamentary seats would not be contested, Conservatives being succeeded by Conservatives, Laborites by Laborites. The political truce was designed to put an end to party politics in wartime. Last week it put a Churchill in Parliament: Randolph, 29-year-old son of Winston...
...moved without a wrench from the Republican to the Democratic Party. And it was he who broke the political truce when World War II began, by coming out for the Third Term ("the President's talents and training are necessary to steer this country, domestically and in its foreign relationships, to safe harbors"). At that time, despite his long belief in internationalism, his hatred of fascism, he believed the U. S. should give up thought of open aid to Britain and France. Later he read Thorstein Veblen's The Nature of Peace and Imperial Germany, and changed...
...Truce? All this looked like so serious a threat to peace in the Mediterranean that U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, on orders from Washington, asked for and got a personal interview with Il Duce (see p. 19). They talked for 45 minutes and correspondents guessed that Mr. Phillips had told Mussolini that the U. S. would keep its shipping out of the Mediterranean if Italy went to war. But that would have been no news to Benito Mussolini. That the U. S. Government was putting all possible "pressure" on Italy to keep the peace was made clear next day when...