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...grasped the needs of the moment. But from one man close to him came a flat warning: U. S. production was worse than any man had reason to expect; the U. S. state of mind was far from reassuring. In Manhattan, to the Overseas Press Club, former Ambassador William Bullitt said: "If we cannot now get into production at war speed without the declaration of a national emergency, I, for one, favor the immediate declaration of a national emergency...
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...coming out of the -woodwork.") The talk rose in speculation about Willkie's future ("The Administration will ignore him, and so will the Republicans in Congress"-The New Republic), and about his relationship with the President who had defeated him ("The aim of the Roosevelt-Willkie-Bullitt combination ... is for a joint British-American war against the Soviet Union"-Daily Worker). But in a Washington that is far more conscious of politics than it is of the war, most of the talk of citizen to citizen raged on the question of Willkie and the Republican Party ("We leave...
...suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany...
...Bullitt the reason for the intellectual disorder was simple: the U. S. looked on the ocean as France had looked on the Maginot Line. But in speaking of the U. S. state of mind, he brought something into the open-many a spokesman who thought he was talking about U. S. defense was actually talking about what the U. S. felt and feared...