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Italy's forces in Libya under fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who succeeded Italo Balbo when the latter was killed, could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added...
...British system is now apparent. The realities must be faced. The entire manufacturing plan will have to be overhauled and revised to mesh with American industry. We can thank God for the industrial power and the growing active support of the United States in the hour of direst need...
...John Buchan's adventure stories, the brave and resourceful young Englishman so regularly and so thrillingly came through in the face of the direst subversive influences-and Author Buchan so obviously believed that he could and should-that to his Empire audience he and his heroes came to have a sort of Empire symbolism all their own. Coupled with his yeoman political and patriotic services, this gave Buchan a place on the list of Britain's public patriots not far down the line from Winston Churchill. As well indicated by their hearty welcome to George VI last summer...
...convince Adolf Hitler that this time Britain means business, that when it signed a treaty last April to assist Poland in case of aggression it meant it. Even British cartoonists, like Middleton of the Birmingham Gazette, complained that the Nazis would pay no attention even to the direst warning a British statesman could give. Führer Hitler and his coterie obviously did not believe a word of it, and there were even non-Nazis who shared the Führer's skepticism. It was all very well to talk of determination to obstruct "aggression," "attack." "force," "domination...
...score only has the University an objection within the realm of objective reason. By the wording of the eligibility clause, which rules out all students not in the direst sort of need, Harvard must take the responsibility of deciding when such need exists. Conceivably, she might be asked to defend a decision before the national government. But surely adequate machinery exists; Harvard's scholarship committee, under Russell T. Sharpe, is organized in exemplary fashion. And decisions correctly made can be defended before any tribunal...