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...civilians to teach themselves how to fight democratically, efficiently and freed of the myths and snobbery of military convention. The only way to meet total attack is total defense. Britain must fight now not to the last Frenchman, not to the last British soldier, but to the last courageous Briton...
Beaverbrook's Baxter writes a fortnightly London Letter for Maclean's, is rated in Canada as an unofficial spokesman for the Government. Two years ago, when Chamberlain capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Munich, Baxter believed with many another Briton that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group...
...Every Briton loves a paradox. Last week the man whom many had begun to call the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever had-whom all conceded to be one of her profoundest initiates in the artifices of rhetoric-was the subject...
...they are not alone: four other Americans and one Briton similarly threatened have dug in their toes, strapped on guns, and called the Jap bluff...
...could imagine no more attractive a future for a young Briton than to serve the good people of Preston, gushed Son Churchill...