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Sirs: Just to let you know that I am keeping informed as to what is really going on in the world, but not through your propaganda sheets. Oh, I also read propaganda material, but have enough intelligence to weed it out, even though I'm only a hillbilly. Don't worry, I'm not at all confused, for I have the interests of America at heart-in other words, I'm pro-American, something you propagandists call pro-Nazi. But the tide has turned and now we can call you pro-Red. However, come what...
Then, like a bean patch under a hot sun, opposition sprouted up & down the country. Feeling blindly for something to fasten to, it clutched and climbed on the solid Chicago organization of General Wood. With sincere isolationists, frightened business and political opportunists, many a political weed twined up: Roosevelt-haters, Bundists, Fascists, Coughlinites. America First chapters sprang up overnight, started their own membership drives. Nickels, dimes, dollars rolled in. From Chicago, it looked breathtaking. The America Firsters in Chicago did not yet realize that their movement had grown out of hand...
...these Generals who want to fire their Chiefs of Staff ought to fire themselves. We're going to start at the top and work down. We've got some bum Generals, and maybe I'm one of them, but we're going to weed them out. Have we the bright young Majors and Captains to replace them...
...Army is facing the fact that wars can't be won without putting the right men in the right places. A lot of this good horse sense is coming from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. One sign of it was a request for more authority to weed out incompetent officers (see above). Another: what General Marshall said about the selection of officers for big commands...
...Bronx is a luxuriant weed patch on the landscape of U.S. speech, and Mr. Kober knows its every leaf and stalk. Damon Runyon thinks that Kober has "the keenest ear for human speech of any writer since Ring Lardner." In one way Kober tops Lardner, for Lardner's baseball players talked pretty much alike, whereas there are distinct differences-some obvious, some subtle-in the talk of Bella and Max as against that of Ma and Pa Gross...