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...Lend-Lease] Bill is a charter of dictatorship and an assurance of war, and you shortly will have your wish. May you relish it in hindsight as much as you do in prospect. Hating fascism, you are embracing it by the back door. You are destroying the United States in the vain hope of mending a Europe about which you are as romantically deluded as were most of us in 1914-17." So said the Saturday Evening Post in one of the extraordinarily bitter letters with which it answered some readers who protested the magazine's stand against...
...November was a time for assay, it was also, in Britain and no doubt France, a time for agonizing hindsight. The war might now be going entirely for the Allies had the French Army facing Italy been equipped with a little Greek blood...
This week a telling document was added to the tragic literature of hindsight. In a dissection of Allied war economics ("Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat"), FORTUNE for July tots up the assets and liabilities of Britain and France and their empires, points up their strength and weakness for totalitarian war. Written before the final collapse of France, it helps explain why that collapse occurred...
...warred, the U. S. grew wise in the ways of neutrality, but its wisdom is not yet ripe. The New York Herald Tribune dismissed the 1937 neutrality law as "an Act to preserve the U. S. from intervention in the War of 191418." Congress still writes neutrality laws by hindsight, but it is still stirred to write them...
...Rapid City, S. Dak. Chairman Cooke indulged in some self-satisfying hindsight: "If a program had been placed in effect 25 years ago this present drought would have been felt much less...