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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to see conscription for Home Defense. I wondered why such a measure was not automatic at the start of the war. To date, all regiments have been quickly filled by volunteers, most of whom are itching to be shipped overseas where they can join in the Battle of Britain alongside of their English cousins. I think the mutual defense pact between the U. S. and Canada is a wonderful thing, but I do not confuse it with the idea that we might soon become part of the U. S. Your excellent article on Canada, published in TIME...
Over the Manchester and Point Bridges -where the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio Rivers join-the parade whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls...
This week Elliott said solemnly: "I decided to join the Army because I must live with my conscience. . . . Instead of doing something good, I found I had committed a horrible political error. I had done one more thing to convince Father I always put my foot in my mouth. ... If I hurt my father's chances in November I know Father will think I have done right...
Many things happened during the 19 days that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's big-shot brother-in-law, RamÓn Serrano Suner, spent in Berlin and Rome. Japan joined the Axis. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini made grandiose plans to conquer much of the world. The war moved toward the Mediterranean, which Don RamÓn's country bounds on the west (see p. 34). And Don RamÓn Serrano Suner, Minister of Government and leader of Spain's dominant Falangist Party, saw many interesting sights and talked to many important people, including Adolf Hitler...
...will join...