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...abruptly when the gavel fell to mark its final adjournment. Weaknesses the Party showed - many a Republican politico fell into a panic when Republicans Knox and Stimson were appointed to the Roosevelt Cabinet (see p. 11); the Committee on Resolutions pondered for countless tormented hours over how to weasel a foreign-policy plank - and such weaknesses could not be dissolved by the magic of nominating speeches...
James Truslow Adams' handling of modern Britain is considerably less critical, less comfortable than his treatment of the 19th Century. Toward the end many readers may suspect that his attitude toward interwar British foreign policy is that the less said the better; he performs a complete weasel on the relations between Britain and Continental powers in the 1930s...
...Federal Council published the President's reply. Ex-Tycoon Taylor (U. S. Steel), said Mr. Roosevelt, "is in Rome as my special representative. This appointment does not constitute the inauguration of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican." Both to the Federal Council and the Christian Century these seemed weasel words. Said the Council's executive committee: "The unwarranted interpretation of this appointment . . . has not been explicitly denied." Wrote Editor Morrison: "Mr. Roosevelt will only confirm the opinion now held widely throughout the country that he wishes the ambassadorship of Mr. Taylor to be regarded by Catholics...
...Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell University. A brilliant theorist in atomic physics, modest, demure Dr. Bethe probes straight to the core of an abstruse problem, then brings to bear on that core his remarkable mathematical equipment so that the answer comes leap ing out like a weasel out of a smoked hole. Educated at Kiel, Frankfort and Munich, Hans Bethe, whose mother is Jewish, was holding a post at Munich when the Nazis came in. He left Germany in 1933, taught and researched in England for a while, went to Cornell in 1935. Author of five major treatises...
Eddie Marsh worshipped his pious, bookish, tone-deaf mother (she "couldn't tell God Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen"). She weaned Author Marsh on Hamlet's soliloquy, and he started her reading such moderns as Zola. She taught him to sew, too, and later, Sir Warrington Smyth, a schoolfellow, and "a powerful influence for good, fired me to knit mittens...