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...kind of U. S. of which Editor White is part and partisan, has typically refrained from looking beyond the seas. Yet now he does so and to him there is no wrench in doing so. He is not even surprised, as he well might be, to find William Allen White climbing through the ropes into the ring with Adolf Hitler. He has long been a one-man committee to defend the kind of democracy that he has known and in his view events have simply given his Committee a new title...
Dear - I cried so hard when I reached my cabin-the flowers, the hams, the turkeys, the cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth and lavish welcome and illusion, only to meet again with the dark struggle, poverty, gloom, dread and want...
Last week, Irish Hospitals' Trust, Ltd. served dismissal notices to its employes, announced voluntary liquidation. Reason: the war had thrown a monkey wrench into its sensitive international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
...clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries with minor navies...
...spread their evil and false propaganda through our schools and through our school text books (see Liberty Magazine December 30, 1939)." Probably he meant it. But even if all this is true, there are better ways of telling it to the people. It wasn't necessary to toss a wrench into the machinery of law-giving and justice-giving...