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...stand on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg and look across the valley at the slope of Little Round Top, you can see why General Longstreet thought it was hopeless to try to take that hill. Now the scene is quiet; the bronze generals stare sightlessly at each other in the forest of statues; the cannons are now cannons in a park. But at dawn on July 2, 1863, when General Longstreet looked across at the ridge occupied by General Meade, the woods were alive with Union soldiers, 339 Union cannons were in the field; and Little Round Top on the Union...
...matter what happens to Britain? Does the President mean to let Britain go after all? His declaration of aid for Russia did not support this view. But the theory that he would revert to a new, super-New Deal isolationism if he came to believe Britain's cause hopeless has seeped underground in Washington for a long time. It flourished among New Dealers even during periods when the President, being assailed as a warmonger, was damning isolationism. They chattered that: 1) the President decided after Dunkirk that Britain could not win; 2) if Britain falls, the U.S. will painlessly...
Closing of the 31 U.S. consulates in Europe severed the last thread by which U.S. businessmen kept some contact with an estimated $1,327,000,000 worth of holdings in Axis-controlled countries. Now hopeless were Jews who still hoped to flee from Germany to the U.S., for closed consulates give out no visas. Furthermore, in its new, hard-boiled foreign policy the U.S. was frowning heavily upon any more immigration, had dusted off an old order that visas should not be issued to any European refugees who were leaving close relatives behind them in Germany. Possible reason: such people...
Month ago, when the Nazis were sprinting across Libya toward Egypt and the British needed every man they could muster from East Africa, Lieut. General Alan Gordan Cunningham offered the Duke of Aosta peace terms. The Duke was in such a hopeless military position that he must have eyed the terms wistfully, even though accepting them would have meant giving up his much-loved gaudy uniforms; but he had strict orders not to give in-having lost Ethiopia, he might as well detain as many British as possible as long as possible...
...often ran almost empty on its Government subsidies, carried only around 30% of the nation's foreign trade. But by last week almost all of Britain's big merchant marine had been withdrawn for war duty, and the U.S. fleet was puffing and panting with the hopeless task of carrying as many as possible of the cargoes the British used to move...