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...Nazi conquest of Russia (wrote the analysts in the White House) would: 1) remove armed resistance from Germany's eastern flank; 2) extend Germany's flank to the Pacific; 3) furnish Germany needed resources from Russia and the Middle East; 4) allow an all-out attack on the British Isles; 5) allow a drive for Nazi conquest of all Northern Africa; 6) strengthen German propaganda peace moves...
This little book includes practically every important literary allusion that has ever been made to human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian...
...accomplish this end the Nazis have used four familiar techniques: 1) for wearied and worried captive masses, the Nazis provide programs that emphasize their woes, carefully bypassing any German responsibility; 2) for gullible listeners, they furnish scapegoats such as the Jews for troubles of every kind; 3) to wear opponents, they endlessly reiterate unhappy news, such as the fictitious sinking of the Ark Royal; 4) to break down confidence in harassed enemy governments the Nazis quote and misquote important local sources: for example, in one recent week, they misquoted the Manchester Guardian criticizing Churchill, misquoted the august Times discussing supply...
...Senator read statistics to show that the Government must now furnish 70% of the power to make up the aluminum shortage. After adding that the U.S. will be practically the sole purchaser, he said: "Under such conditions there is no basis for large profits to private interests. The furnishing of management skill and services is all there is left. There is a question whether, at least as to one or more plants, the Government should not hire the necessary personnel on a salaried basis...
...When he emerged, to tell waiting reporters what had been decided, the question of aid to Russia was still unsettled. The Soviet Government had not yet asked the U.S. for help. But, said the inscrutable Mr. Welles, the President had authority under the Lend-Lease Act to furnish aid to any country resisting aggression...