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Congress might balk at both requests. The House Ways & Means Committee, working on a new tax bill, shied away from his all-out proposals. Farm bloc Senators complained bitterly, for the record. But Franklin Roosevelt had a big stick, at which his message hinted delicately: this is an election year, and the people are impatient with laggard legislators...
...Beaver's case for a second front deliberately brushed beyond such military factors as the Allied shipping shortage, the drain on Britain's home defenses, the difficulties still in the way of all-out U.S. help in a continental offensive. His case rested in a single sentence: "If the Russians are defeated and driven out of the war, never will such a chance come to us again...
Fighter pilots on sweeps noticed that German fighters avoided combat whenever possible, hanging on to flanks, hoping for stragglers with engine trouble. Luftwaffe fighters seemed to be under orders to fight only when necessary. The Nazis were apparently nursing their supplies and their flyers for an all-out assault on the Middle East and Russia. But with the R.A.F. hitting harder & harder, it looked as if Göring would have to get off his heels and do some fancy toe dancing to prevent the British from wrecking Nazi plans, throwing Hitler's timetable out of kilter again...
...even with bombings and incidents such as Dunkrik to jolt it out of its lethargy, it took the English two and a half years to obtain real concerted action. Because the war is still so far away in the minds of many Americans, he continued, the spirit necessary to obtain all-out civilion effort will probably require an even longer period to attain in this country...
Flashing an all-out green signal, President Conant last night told his Sanders Theatre audience that the demand for speed is desperate and "for young men the needs of the armed services now overshadow all other considerations...