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...independence of the Western Hemisphere is challenged as much by forces within as by those from without, declared W. Barton Leach, professor of Law, as the opening speaker at the three-day session of the League of Women Voters' School of Foreign Affairs at Radcliffe yesterday...
...accompaniment of clicking knitting needles, Leach attacked both Charles A. and Anne Lindbergh for their isolationist stand. "Lindbergh is Maginot-minded," he said. "He thinks of American defense only in terms of the Atlantic Ocean and 20,000,000 men of military...
...England can be beaten, and if she is it will be in the next six months," Leach stated. "There is reason to hope that an invasion of Britain will not take place, but we are a long way from being relieved of that threat...
Assuming that Britain might fail, Leach attacked those who believe that Hitler would leave us alone. "If you were Hitler in June, 1941, would you let the United States go right on manufacturing guns, ships, tanks, and planes, the purpose of which could be only for use against...
...Leach doubted whether, in the event of a British defeat, South America would be an asset to us. South America can be acquired "at blitzkrieg tempo" by a ruthless nation with a strong fleet and long-range bombers, he said, and our good-neighbor policy is "an artificial trifle" when compared with that threat...