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...with the plea: "Save Suez!" But Churchill has got a clear record of insistence that North Africa is vital, that it is a hub of the Allied war scheme. Still, with the probability of a vast German attack on Russia, and existence of a major Japanese attempt to crush China, danger to the United Nations loomed on every sector of the battlefront. And nowhere had there yet been signs of an offensive to endanger the Axis. All the signs pointed to a summer of bad news for the Allies...
This week the clock struck. The time for Hitler's great attempt to crush Russia had come...
...Government will pay them back. Then, said Mr. Roosevelt, "We will make our plans. . . . One thing you can be sure of—we are going to see to it that there is enough rubber to build the planes to bomb Tokyo and Berlin-enough rubber to build the tanks to crush the enemy wherever we may find him—enough rubber...
...Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart at the primaries. The only chance for Bennet was to get Democrats in the district to support him as a coalition candidate in November. That kind of a coalition was up to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Japanese drove new spearheads into the Shanghai-Hankow-Canton triangle of southeast China today and appeared to be making continued progress in their whole effort to crush all Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek's forces in this great region...