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...thinking of you deeply while you are sharing with me our profound attachment and complete dedication to our immortal country. Gird yourselves to face difficult tests, together with allied Germany, with uncrushable faith in mastering them...
...aggression in the Mediterranean area, announced she would "fulfill her obligations." At Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, Franklin Roosevelt served notice that the Democracy of the U. S. would aid the Democracies of France and Britain with all available resources (see p. 13). It would gird and train for the worst...
...will then be faced with the unpleasant prospect of possible conflict. Then and only then can war take on an inevitable quality which still must be tempered by allowance for diplomatic contingencies. At that time national defense must go into high gear; only then will it be necessary to gird our loins for the struggle with Mephistopheles. Conscription today is unnecessary for America's best interests and dangerous as one step nearer to involvement in the present...
Last week seven U. S. peace bodies* issued a Pacifist Handbook designed to inform and gird pacifists and conscientious objectors for the next war. The Handbook is factual, realistic, anything but meek and mild. In some 60 questions and answers, it shows pacifists what happened to their fellows in the last war, what will probably happen to them in the next, not excluding "the concentration camp and even the firing squad." The Handbook summarizes the arguments against pacifism to which its adherents will be subjected, suggests various courses of action in such dilemmas as: whether to refuse...
...first time in several years members of the University will have a chance to see football movies. The flicka will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:30 o'clock tonight and will concern the Harvard-Princeton gird fray...