FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bertie Has a Plan

Tall, dour, diffident Publisher Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and his arch -isolationist, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune have been, in the year and a half the U.S. has been at war, active obstructionists. They have sniped and ranted ceaselessly at the President and every phase of the war effort, have publicly doubted the necessity of rationing, have insisted that the U.S. is giving up strawberry jam to assure jam for British breakfasts, that OPA is spying on merchants, that England wants empire-as-usual, that the European war is not our first concern.

Always belittling, always knocking, Publisher McCormick has never offered a plan...

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