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...Pontius Pilatism." Negroes, says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...
...victory was no triumph of democracy over authoritarianism. But it was considerably more than a defeat of Tweedledum by Tweedledee. In his struggle with Perlinger, Perón had swung from extreme to relatively moderate nationalism. He was still for Argentina first and last, still convinced that the best rule was military rule. But he had striven to prove that neither hatred of the Yankees nor imitation of Fascism was indispensable...
...When the time comes for such a change of party, the difference between the two great parties on great issues tends to diminish to the vanishing point. That is the secret strength of American society. . . . Our party system is one of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ... To the exquisite pain of the doctrinaires, the party rising in power is ... a 'carbon copy' of the party it is displacing. . . . And the question is one of men, not of principles...
Wendell Willkie's Missouri mission was a tough one. First he had to show that he was no Tweedledum to Franklin Roosevelt's Tweedledee. He had to answer the criticisms of such conventional conservative Republicans as Missouri's wealthy Edgar Monsanto Queeny. At the same time he had to show the rest of the U.S. that as a Presidential candidate he really had something vital to offer beyond his known attitude of good will to men. In one sober public speech and one off-the-record session he established both points...
...news coverage, CBS and NBC have lately been Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Last week the balance of power shifted to include Tweedleblue...