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Show FEAR PLUS CUPIDITY. H. L. Mencken, in a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from London, commenting on the difficulty which confronts con-fronts all international conferences, sums up the one great handicap which attaches to all political activity when he says: "No party to negotiations ever dares to say plainly what is in his mind. He must always remember the radio, ra-dio, the folks back home above all, the archaic and insane in-sane etiquette of his grotesque art." Mr. Mencken might have gone further and said that practically all the cheap political bickering witnessed in Congress is the result of exactly the same factors. n |