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...President Hambro (now in the U. S.) writes a simple, straightforward, courageous account of the fight of a small neutral (Norway had no standing army) for survival, of heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front...
Francis B. Sayre, appointed High Commissioner last year, arrived in Manila and flatly declared that the Tydings-McDuffie Act meant what it said: the Philippines were to be cut loose in 1946. Wiggling Mr. Quezon suggested an international conference to guarantee the neutrality of his defenseless islands. This summer it was reported that he intended to visit Washington to complain that Commissioner Sayre had trespassed on his rights. Last week he had his resident commissioner in Washington issue a statement that his Government intends to buy at least $2,000,000 worth of commodities in the U. S. every year...
Last month Archibald MacLeish penitently claimed that he and other writers of his generation (Ernest Hemingway, et al.) by their debunking of old slogans had "disarmed" the U. S., rendered it cynical and "defenseless before an aggressor" (TIME, June 3). Last week a famed educator got up and beat a rival breast. Before 1,000 visiting teachers at the summer session of Columbia University's Teachers College, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon made an extraordinary confession...
...many past generations were no longer certain, the values of many generations valueless. In the Near East former masters were impotent, new masters sweeping nearer. India might soon be cut off from all contact with the mother country she has worried for so long. Japan looked southward toward almost defenseless prizes (see below). Much of Africa was about to change hands; much of the rest was being fought over (see p. 25). South America shook with totalitarian scares (see p. 32). The U. S. was far from safe (see p. 14). As far as the sun courses, chaos or dread...
President Roosevelt gave a carefully prepared message to the American people concerning real dangers and the necessity of preparing against them. Mr. Lindbergh sees fit to deride this as "chatter." At this very time defenseless cities are being bombed; women, children, and non-combatants are being murdered; freedom, representative government and every human decency are being attacked with the utmost savagery by the people . . . to whom he is giving the utmost encouragement in America...