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...Gallup poll last week reported that, of the 45% of Americans who drive to work (or ride with someone else), nearly three-quarters assert that they can get to work some other way. And 54% of all U.S. automobile owners made the astounding declaration that, if they couldn't use their cars at all, it wouldn't make much difference anyway...
These same groups now assert-and it was clear that they would-that the outcome of the part of the United States in the Pacific phase of the world war can and must be independent of its phases in China, Russia, England, the Mediterranean; and in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Norway. These groups justly incite distrust and suspicion against themselves-their suggestions are so outstandingly preposterous...
...want in this column to show how our aims are being controverted by our actions. I want to express the importance of the simple and individual emotions in moulding a faith that will be strong enough to assert itself as the faith of the world...
...collapses, an attack on Siberia would be only the preface to further expansion in the East Indies. We can't appease Japan any more than we can appease Germany. It's time for us to draw a line, and if they cross it, to shoot. The more strongly we assert this, the less chance there is of our actually having to fight...
...that it is not mastering the complexity of its industrial life. The U.S. that emerges has shortages in many things-in raw materials, steel, power, transportation-but they argue that it has its greatest shortage in ideas, ideas of what it can do and how it can win. They assert that it has the men who can put the ideas into effect-but that the men have not been called. So far, in the great fields of its efforts, they find that the U.S. is not winning. It is losing, and it is losing fast...