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...politicos and pundits. But if U. S. voters could not identify liberalism, they could spot a liberal without trouble. Liberal, in the sense that he is an ex-New Republican, is Columnist Walter Lippmann. Liberal also is Historian Charles Beard. While Liberal Lippmann plumped for repeal of the arms embargo, hammered at the Communist-Fascist threat to democracy, Liberal Beard wanted the embargo kept, lashed out at "giddy minds and foreign quarrels" like an outraged professor lecturing unruly students who have got his goat. Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard said his liberal say in the Nation, in the New York Evening...
...Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world in the chains of colonial slavery"; the Italian bourgeois, which "waits only for a convenient moment to throw himself on the oppressed and have his share...
...complaints and the temper of the U. S. public. And another thing he made perfectly clear was that there is some talk in the U. S. that when the abrogated Trade Treaty of 1911 lapses in January, it might be followed not by a new treaty, but by an embargo. To tell a Japanese that Americans do not like to fight Japan's war for them is not to threaten...
...need 1,500 ships over & above Britain's war needs. Her infant air industry, though encouraged by a $10,000,000 "educational" order from the mother country last year, is by no means equipped to supply such a quantity. Last week the Empire Training Planners waited only the embargo-lifting vote by Congress to place $100,000,000 worth of orders in the U. S., for 600 light trainers, 900 fighters and bombers. Of this cost, Britain will pay half, Canada onequarter, Australia and New Zealand one-eighth each...
Said Father Charles Edward Coughlin, broadcasting from Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower day after repeal of the U. S. arms embargo became law: "It is my opinion that now we are virtually at war with Germany...