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They got much clearer information on tankers. Informant: Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S. Land. He said the U.S. has 139 tankers under construction (present East Coast fleet: 221). By year's end eleven of these will be in the water, by next April another 14. Better still, the 25 new ships will be so big (16,000 tons average), and so fast (15 knots or better) that they will be able to haul as much oil as the 50 tankers handed to Britain...
History will decide whether the editors are right or wrong in their gauge of what must be done. But in this view the new smoky stage sets of history become a little clearer; the emerging cast of characters becomes more sharply defined. The time is the present. The time is the extraordinary present, in which the U.S. now-not as it is supposed to be next summer, next year, next millennium, when the air forces are to be built, the two-ocean Navy completed, the Army trained, the finances in order, the citizen cheerful, self-sacrificing, prudent, wise, farsighted, quick...
During every long Presidential silence such talk flourishes and last week the U.S. was in the middle of such a silence. A likely explanation for it was that the President was waiting for the military situation in Russia to grow clearer, for U.S. public opinion to crystallize. A still likelier explanation was that he badly needed the rest he was taking. But at any event last week Franklin Roosevelt left it to others to tell the public what to do about a war which no one should...
Karl Taylor Compton (president of M.I.T.): "As compared with your predecessors ... in the past decade, you go out into a world where the issues are clearer and your course better defined. . . . Barring a miracle, it appears to me that we will become involved directly in this war, and that before very long. ... I personally believe that we ought to become involved, just as soon and in whatever way will most effectively join our forces to those of Britain...
...European civilization, as Shirer's people embody it, has become a complex of nostalgias, apathies, pleasant habits. As a moral force to counteract the Nazis' immoral force, it is a mere buzz. Another reason for the swift Nazi successes is made clearer: the Nazis found a moral vacuum, rushed in to fill it with a workable immorality. Europe could not save itself...