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Under the whiplash of World War II's direst crisis, the U.S. Army had poured troops, arms and supplies into the British Isles for a second-front fighting force. Yet the machine was a long way from being tuned up, would not run at full power before spring. One measure of its progress: the last cogs in its high command were supplied only last week...
...people at home wondered why they had heard so little from these forces (in three weeks, only the Andamans raid and two on Rangoon were reported), Lewis Brereton knew the answer. Except in direst need, he was done with sending insufficient forces into battle. When he struck, he would strike with enough to defeat and destroy his enemies, the Japs across the Bay. It was a resolve, a policy which General Brereton had acquired the hard and bloody...
This Committee has concealed its motives in the past; perhaps it is concealing them still. Perhaps it is guilty of the direst accusations of the left. It may not be concerned with preserving a dynamic democracy in this country. Conscription, which it supported vigorously, is a weapon that can be used for an attack upon democracy. White himself recently said, in effect, that it was treason to oppose invasion of the European continent, for he asserted appeasement was treason, and defined appeasement as a stalemate peace leaving Germany in control of the continent. The Committee is now working for repeal...
...entered its second year, it was fought, at last, as it was originally pictured by its direst prophets, in a vast three-dimensional battlefield-over some 1,000,000 square miles of land and sea, in some 5,000,000 cubic miles of western Europe's air space. In twelva months the Germans claimed to have destroyed 6,950 enemy aircraft while losing 1,050 of their own, to have dropped 5,000,000 bombs. The British said Germany had lost 3,945 planes in a year, to 1,012 British. Last week the Russian Army's official...
...ministerial barrage of counter-citation. His critics charged: 1) that "you can prove anything you want to prove by the Bible"; 2) that he had plucked his texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...