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When would U. S. capacity be great enough to meet any defense task? The soonest possible date was late autumn 1941-ten months. Many men believed Hitler would try for a knockout of England in April. Between Hitler's April and America's October stretched a hell-to-pay period that no man could foresee, and that few cared to contemplate...
JOURNEY INTO FEAR-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). Wartime attempt of a Britisher, traveling in naval ordnance, to get home from Turkey. His gradual realization that he must be murdered, Turkish gestures of protection, changing plans, sudden death on his ship-this is ordinary intrigue material made into a knockout story...
...Nelson Gidding displays a facility of technique and a mastery of dramatic detail that make his story excellent reading. The emphasis on character psychology, combined with these technical qualities, results in a stimulating narrative which increases steadily in intensity to the end. Gidding saves the final knockout punch for the last few lines, although if the reader has the perception, the conclusion will come as no surprise. The story is probably the best the author has produced...
...crushing horror of the blasting of Coventry was that it suggested the same thing could befall other British cities. It was evidently a blow for which supreme force had been gathered, a try for a knockout before U. S. production should begin to give Britain the edge over Germany. Also it was punishment (the Germans said) for British audacity in bombing Munich last fortnight while Adolf Hitler was there, and for disturbing Russian Premier Molotov's visit with bombs upon Danzig and Berlin, and for again plastering the Krupp works at Essen. The only mystery...
...said that "unless a miracle happens, it looks as if Uncle Sam will be in the war" by next summer. If Sedgwick has his way, this is how it will happen: When White and his satellites, among them President Conant, decide that American resistance has been sufficiently weakened, the knockout blow will be delivered, and the United States will be blasted into war by a barrage of skillful propaganda shaming Hearst's puny jingoism...