Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, having just returned to inactive status in the Army Reserve (after looking over aircraft production facilities for the Air Corps), Charles Lindbergh could say what he pleased. His associates in the War Department guessed enough of what he wanted to say to ask him not to say it. Some of his few intimates insisted before & after he spoke that Charles Lindbergh is for shipping arms and airplanes to the Allies. If he expected his speech to be so interpreted, he was notably naive. It was as the son of his father that he said...
...must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife. Let us make no mistake about the cost of entering this war. . . . Munitions alone will not be enough. . . . We are likely to lose a million men, possibly several million. . . . And our children will be fortunate if they see the end in their lives...
Denmark was not badly off, although exports to Britain (50% of Denmark's trade) were declining. With enough gasoline for three months, Denmark locked it up, canceled private motoring. There were enough raw materials, foodstuffs, consumers goods, but Government officials said rationing might begin after September...
...Sure enough, next day, Commander-Ambassador Umezu sang a pretty overture: the "present deplorable situation" on the Manchukuo-Mongolia border, he said, was merely the result of the Russians not wanting to negotiate a definite boundary line, which Japan had always wanted...
...enough to beat Hitlerism; we must beat the conditions from which Hitlerism sprang...