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Hitler's sweep through France did more to make Mexico see eye to eye with Washington than years of diplomatic talk. Last week as Nazis goose-stepped in Paris, the Mexican Government, which has played with or tolerated every ism in the atlas in the past few years, suddenly decided that it had better get in step with the Colossus of the North, if & when the Colossus decides what it is going...
...licked off them and the Stalinists sent back to the Kremlin... I hope the U. S. won't have to get into the war, but am not prepared to say that under certain circumstances American military participation would not be necessary and worth it." ∧ In the House, Ism-eater Martin Dies was lustily applauded for the first time in months when he launched a routine denunciation of isms and the C. I. O. ∧Its mind's eye swimming with "fifth columns," the House Immigration and Naturalization Committee last week took a quick look under...
...solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...that was fairly old stuff. Later in the week Das Schwarze Korps clicked its heels again and did better with a brand-new patriotic ism. Discarding the long-proclaimed Nazi thesis that the English were racially first cousins to the Germans, Himmler's theorists announced that actually the English were "white Jews" and that British "Protestantism" was after all only a modern version of the "old Jewish law book.'5 "This theory," conceded the paper, "is, of course, too novel to be immediately grasped by everyone. We have been far too accustomed to regard England as we would...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...