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Franklin Roosevelt thus was optimistic himself about the Battle of the Atlantic, which was now a major defeat. The U.S. people, high & low, throve on hope, withered on gloom...
What the people felt was paralleled in Washington's high places. More & more nonmilitary officials threw off the gloom of early 1942, began to see it as a year of hope. The optimism was freighted with ifs, checked with maybes, throttled with per-haps's-but it was there...
What Days Are Ahead? This is Scotland in 1942-busy but worried-and so doubtless it will remain until the war is over. But then, as in other countries throughout the world, a tragic era of depression may return. M.P. Harry Mc-Neil, adding more gloom to Tom Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will...
...MacArthur and the staff which had come with him from the Philippines. As soldiers, they might agree that nothing more could have been done to save Bataan. As men, they were bound to wish that more had been done. Their uncertain status in Australia did nothing to lighten their gloom...
...smoke from Balikpapan's fires lay low and heavy on the water and the night was moonless. After midnight four Jap destroyers burst out of the gloom across the course of Desdiv 59. Talbot swung to starboard to avoid them, hoped they would not see him. They disappeared in the night and Desdiv 59 dashed into the middle of the convoy...