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Last week Father Henry thought differently. Reason: a fervent isolationist, he will manufacture only for "Defense," not for Britain.* At once the entire deal was declared off. Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen issued a pained, circumstantial account; Morgenthau explained that inasmuch as Britain had given the U.S. permission to make the Rolls motor, "fairness and policy" required that Britain should have the right to buy them. Said Henry Ford: "My offer to make airplanes, aviation engines or anything else the U. S. Government needs for defensive purposes still stands...
...Crimson has read the address in its entirety. To us it still seems that the implications of the first portion of the sermon are interventionist. However, the Crimson is happy to find that it is in error, that Bishop Lawrence never intended to be so understood. It is our fervent hope that others in the Harvard community will be wise enough to follow the Bishop's lead, and neither "think or say that this country should enter...
Most patriotic of early U. S. composers was an Englishman. In 1792 James Hewitt settled in Manhattan, where he conducted concerts for the peruked and crinolined promenaders at Delacroix's Vaux Hall Gardens. So fervent became Britisher Hewitt's Americanism that he deplored the British alehouse origin of The Star-Spangled Banner,* wrote himself a brand-new musical setting for Francis Scott Key's words...
...last eight years of world chaos, many a U. S. citizen has given fervent thanks that the U. S. is endowed with ample supplies of all but a handful of basic resources...
...topics as irrelevant: "In my view, the talk about the President or any other personage dragging the country into war is the sheerest drivel. The only person on earth who may drag this nation into war is Hitler. . . . His pledged word is not worth a thrip.* He is a fervent believer in the immoral Machiavellian doctrine of the end justifying the means, however vile the end may be. He has repeatedly lied as to his purposes since the deplorable Munich conference and it may confidently be expected that under his wretched domination Germany still regards written treaties as mere scraps...