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...more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were set on giving the Resolution some teeth. Notable hecklers: Florida's Claude Pepper and three of the four "B2H2 boys...
Victorious on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 1), Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away...
...with transcriptions of the conversations. The New York tabloid PM reported that Pearson's syndicator, United Features, had refused to allow him to reply to the President. PM published what it reported was a banned column, in which Pearson elaborated on the statements that had provoked the Presidential wrath...
...Wall Street Journal charged that FCC was using its licensing authority "to censor broadcasts, when the law gave it no such power. . . ." The New York World-Telegram chimed in with headlines: BROADCASTERS LIVE IN HOLY FEAR OF FCC WRATH...
...reasons: 1) propaganda to India (from Singapore, Indian Agitator Subhas Chandra Bose broadcast: "Now that India's neighbor Burma has achieved its freedom, nothing on earth can keep the Indians enslaved any longer"); 2) there is severe economic distress in Burma and the Japs would rather see public wrath directed at Ba Maw than at themselves; 3) the Japs expect an Allied offensive into Burma, think the political gesture toward the Burmese is timely...