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...ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler. Said Ames: "If Bonaparte prevails [in Europe], we will be his vassals. . . . Britain fights our battles. . . . One single hope of security is the British Navy. ... If Russia is disarmed, how long will it be before England will be done...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who for two years has hammered home the assertion that Adolf Hitler is a fearfully real danger to the U.S., last week came out with a new proposal: to cut down the U.S. Army. He wrote...
...Pundit Lippmann pointed out that keeping men in an idle army is a danger to morale, that the materials required for an idle army could better be used to send increased aid to Britain and Russia, or be converted to ship and aircraft building. But in one thing he erred: the present U.S. land force of 1,597,810 men is no mass army by modern standards. With Hitler estimated to have 300 trained divisions, the U.S. Army now comprises...
Exclusive of the Air Forces (which Pundit Lippmann excepted from his suggested reduction) the Army today numbers a round 1,400,000 in officers and men. For purely defensive purposes, military experts now consider that the U.S. Army needs as minima these forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs...
Point was that the President was slugging it out with his critics. Pundit Walter Lippmann was not impressed by the new Presidential slashing...