FOREIGN RELATIONS: Traveler's Tale

In Cairo, a transport plane set down Wendell Willkie after the first 11,000-mile lap of his trip to Russia and China* as a dual representative of Franklin Roosevelt and America's loyal opposition. His wardrobe was a tourist's sun helmet and a rumpled, dark blue business suit with a torn pocket. Said the voice from the Midwest to the people of the Mideast: "I've come for a definite purpose. As a member of the party in opposition to the President, I want to say that there is no division in America on the question of both winning the war and establishing...

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