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...have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their way through the Balkans and conquer 6,000,000 German soldiers...
...immediate military importance of the Yugoslav overturn is that Germany can hardly attack Greece with ease or comfort without having Yugoslavia secure. If Germany has to conquer Yugoslavia first, she will have at best an ugly little campaign to fight, and afterwards nasty guerrilla warfare that will cost both time...
...social worker, has more understanding of the Bowery bum than respect for her bureaucratic colleagues who speak of the poor as "cases." She has seen the same economic underworld that preoccupied Farrell, Steinbeck, Dos Passes. But it has whetted, not dulled, her faith in man's ability to conquer his environment...
...profane and frequently ribald away from his mike, Mr. Anthony when wired for sound is as full of virtue as a revivalist. Ladies periodically knocked around by their husbands, men whose wives tend to wander indiscriminately, are uniformly advised by Mr. Anthony that life is beautiful and love will conquer all. The ill winds that blow through his microphone bring Mr. Anthony an estimated $3,000 a week...
...either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could not conquer Europe. Hitler's travels of the last fortnight suggested that he might be planning to consolidate Europe before proposing peace again...