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During the past month cataclysmic events have taken place in Europe. We have had a revelation of power which had been hidden from even the military experts. 'The Nazi Juggernaut has gone crashing across Europe, heedless of the resistance of the small powers, threatening the French with imminent defeat and raising the specter of an invasion of England. Whatever may be, said of these victories, they raise problems whose very existence occasion the most acute anxiety in this country. These victories oblige us, I believe, to reviser positions which appeared perfectly tenable last autumn...
...German words and acts last week and this week pointed to the heart of France, rather than Britain, as the Nazi juggernaut's next immediate destination. High-flying waves of German bombers paraded over Paris, began a new reign of terror by showering heavy bombs at airfields, factories, railroads. Forty-five people were killed, 149 injured and thousands scared, including U. S. Ambassador Bullitt (see p. 30). Marseille and Lyon were raided by Germans looking for industrial objectives down the Rhone Valley...
...German juggernaut is so near the northwest outskirts of the French capital that the American Red Cross headquarters has fled to Bordeaux...
Sirs: Two alternatives face the people of the U. S. in the event that Hitler's drive to the west produces a Nazi victory. Either his influence will invade the Western Hemisphere to such an extent that the U. S. A. will find itself actually fighting the German juggernaut in our own sphere of influence; or, in the effort to discourage his stepping into South America, we will be forced to compete with his armament production...
...indications came from the White House that the President had found his paragon, it dawned on some Republicans last week that at last they had an Issue. For seven years, while the New Deal juggernaut squnched over the political battlefield, the G. O. P. had vainly whipped up little issues, had vainly sought an issue that would stand up under fire. The G. O. P. popgun fusillade was futile, their cannons fired only blanks, their bombers dropped duds or boomerangs...