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...within the bounds of the militarily desirable and the politically practical. Thus the U.S. does not want a Pan-American declaration of war because it would be neither militarily desirable (the other 20 republics need their entire armed forces for defense), nor politically practical (other countries besides Argentina might balk at such a step). The U.S. will be satisfied to carry its war to the Axis so long as its neighbors stand squarely behind...
...Japan to Balk Communists...
...weeks. The only way to defeat a bill the President really wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number in the Senate...
...Commandeering factories whose owners balk at defense contracts (71%, yes). > Working overtime at regular pay "if it would help speed up the defense program...
...spent an evening last month expounding his doctrine of flowing horses and horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within the limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array of fire power: a modern U. S. Cavalry division's 6,476 horses and 10,100 officers and men should carry, among other things, 9,764 pistols, 942 light & heavy machine guns...