National Affairs: War-Without-Profit

One day last week in the book department of Hearn's, downtown Manhattan department store, newshawks rushed in to interview an author who was autographing his books, Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo —and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What...

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