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...Said Mr. Bullitt: "We know that our country is not producing weapons of defense fast enough and that we are not supplying weapons in sufficient quantities to the British, the Chinese and the Greeks. . . . We . . . have not lived up to our tradition of American enterprise and industrial efficiency. . . . If we were fully awake to the danger that threatens us, we should at this hour be producing every implement of defense that we need . . . that the British, the Chinese and the Greeks need, with as great speed as though we were...
...Bullitt's explanations for the apathy: U. S. unwillingness to read the meaning of the totalitarian alliance; the strength of U. S. isolationists' desire to retreat to the pre-1914 world; the exploitation by Communists and Nazis of internal U. S. weaknesses. Once, he said, Joseph Stalin had told him that there was one job no man could carry out effectively: the Presidency of the U. S. Stalin said that when he ordered something done, it was done; but that by the time a U. S. President convinced 130,000,000 people that something should be done...
Last week it seemed unlikely that Stalin ("quaking in his Kremlin," said Bill Bullitt, "too weak, morally and physically, to win even a jackal's victory over corpses") was still laughing. But there were few who wanted to argue that U. S. production was flowing as well as it could, that the maximum U. S. strength was behind U. S. arming and aid to democracies, that U. S. morale was all that it should be. Sharper than most, the Bullitt speech fitted into the vast literature of warning and appeal that has filled the U. S. since World...
...around the President-Tommy Corcoran, Harry Hopkins, Ben Cohen, Adolf Berle Jr., William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, William Bullitt, Robert H. Jackson, Samuel I. Rosenman, and the other "brain guys"-pass unrecognized on any streets but Washington's. The views of each of these Presidential advisers differ radically in practically every respect except devotion to the Boss. Berle and The Cork enthusiastically dislike each other; Hopkins has "stabbed" Corcoran so often that the Janizariat often wonders if there is a fresh spot left for the knife. What they all now think of Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy could...
...elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped to get him his appointment) and, of course, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and General John J. Pershing...