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Hans Heyman 3G, President; Fred Chang 3G, Vice-President; Robert Rennie 3G, Treasure; Jack Baldwin '43, Secretary; Edward Mysliwy '43, Chairman of the Social Committee; and Norman Myer '43, head of the Committee on Membership and Publicity...
...issue on which almost all Americans can agree at once, says Baldwin, is hemisphere defense. He does not mean the passive defense of which the Maginot, Mannerheim and Metaxas Lines are the tragic symbols. Passive defense, he claims, is one of the things that destroyed France, came near to destroying England. The U.S. and its Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without...
Behind the British bastion, hemisphere defense must rely on: 1) slowly augmenting U.S. air and naval forces; 2) naval and air bases from Greenland to the River Plate, from Alaska to Chile and as far east in the Atlantic as the Azores. Baldwin insists that defense of the hemispheric eastern coastline is impracticable until the U.S. has a base in the hump of Brazil. But until there is a unified hemispheric strategy, a unified U.S. command, a unified U.S. production plan, says Baldwin, defense effort will be hit or miss, with a dangerous percentage of misses...
United We Stand! includes some plain talk about the plight of national defense, the present state of defense industry. Some of Baldwin's statements may be challenged though it seems unlikely that many will be challenged successfully. Some of his openhanded slaps at the Administration may start thunderheads crashing in high places. Some readers will be dismayed by his reports of defense lags during a year that has seen Europe conquered from Norway to Greece because of inadequate defenses. But most readers reading his book and the war news will find his viewpoint realistic, sturdy, fearless...
...emotional surge that made the Civil War possible came the one great U.S. cultural burst-Emerson and Whitman, the Lincoln speeches and the Lincoln legend, and great war songs such as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Americans will know what Author Baldwin meant when he wrote: "This is our job: to transmute our potential strength into dynamic energy, into the fighting ships and planes and guns and men we need until the raucous voice of America-the voice of Walt Whitman and The Rail Splitter, of George Washington and the gentle Lee, the voice of the blue-jeaned...