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...preliminary submarine all-out has been threatened several times. The comparative lull of recent weeks tended to confirm the idea that U-boats were being thoroughly tuned up, that new ones were being commissioned, that a greatly intensified counter-blockade would begin soon. In London it was guessed that 600 German submarines, mostly "minnows" of 250-300 tons, would be let loose as a preliminary to invasion...
...Moines, over 1,000 farmers from the U. S.'s richest farm land gathered at the National Farm Institute to hear Henry Wallace, Claude Wickard, Dean Acheson, other Washington bigwigs speak for all-out aid to Britain, against the isolationism for which the Corn Belt has been famous. They were greeted with thoughtful, friendly applause. Said one farmer: "I'm in the cattle business, and I'm doing all right. But if importing Argentine beef is going to help our defense situation, let Argentine beef...
...All-out bombing by 5,000 planes...
...This is an all-out effort. There are no fixed limits save the limits imposed by physical and human capacity employed to their utmost...
...been brilliant. But the British had not relinquished their conviction that this time the great nations would have to hand in their final proofs not in Africa but on or near a little patch of islands hard by the shoulder of disproven France (see below). They still expected an all-out attack at home...