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...into proper psychological and physical condition for a fight that he seriously believes will never come off." His plan for conditioning potential U. S. fighters is to show them step by step how England's failure to take war seriously from 1933 to 1939 brought her to the brink...
...whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong, consistent foreign policy, a tradition whose failure has brought France to downfall and Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal of U. S. isolationism, but it is a policy on which the U. S. already is launched. It was launched last week when Congress definitely placed an order for a two-ocean navy...
...famed Producer Charles B. Cochran lamented: "I was getting going again, but Hitler put me right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
...Whoa, Mr. President," cried the Detroit News, sensing in Franklin Roosevelt's nonbelligerent intervention a pull toward war. Hundreds of letters approved (8-to-1) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's, bitter declaration that the President, unless checked, would take the U. S. over the brink...
Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...