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...wouldn't it be better and a lot more useful and wiser to contribute this money to the war cause and arrange your own hair and manicure your own nails as thousands of us women do. And if Hitler does conquer England, as he seems to be doing, I don't believe it will matter much if Wally has a new permanent or if she wears a new color on her fingertips...
...puzzled, torn at heart was George Norris, and he told the Senate why: "Conscription is contrary to the spirit of human freedom ... in time it will ruin democracy." Yet: "I concede that they [the dictators] would like to conquer the U. S. . . ." Yet again: he would rather "see the end come and cross the river into all eternity," than see one-half of the U. S. toiling and sweating to support the other half under arms. He could concede that conscription was "the fair way to raise an army." But he could not support conscription in peacetime, even...
...been many who believed the German propagandists who told them they could buy peace with Germany. There had been those who believed that Hitler would be satisfied after the occupation of the Saar, after Austria, after Czecho-Slovakia. "There are also Americans who argue that if Hitler should conquer Great Britain he would be content to stop there, and that the United States would be able to cooperate happily with the Hitler Empire of Europe. To believe this is to misunderstand the entire nature of the Nazi system. . . . Were Germany to try to resume the ways of peace, the military...
Smashing the British was these men's job, and their aerial Trafalgar marked an epoch in military history. The argument whether air fleets can conquer sea fleets has not been settled and may never be. But last week in the Battle of Britain, neither Germans nor Britons fooled themselves: mastery of the air was mastery...
...Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads, has conducted his foreign policy along distinctly anti-Mexican lines. As host to Claimant Almazán, he will be more likely than ever to close an official...