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...Roosevelt pleaded with the Dies Committee, which had had Joe on the mat once before, to re-examine his history, see whether he could not be given a clean bill of health. On reexamination, the Dies Committee flunked him again. Then the Army stepped in. A Manhattan draft board obligingly reclassified Joe, who had been 1-H (over 28, with no dependents), gave him a top rating of 1-A. In a few weeks Joe is to start his wartime career as a private in the Army...
...superb preparation and defense of the Philippines-almost entirely lacking in planes and tanks, which are at least 95% of modern warfare's matériel-General Douglas MacArthur was 1941's Man of the Year with no close competitors...
...moment later cheers from the crowds outside heralded the arrival of U.S. delegates led by Under Secretary Sumner Welles, who walked in, poker-faced, managing despite midsummer heat and a double-breasted blue suit, to look as cool as a glass of maté. The applause which greeted him was real. For the first time in the long history of Pan-American conferences, delegates, influenced by a common fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor...
...other defense chiefs-had the same goal. Without conversion to munitions the auto industry was finished, because there was no more rubber for its peacetime cars to roll on. Without conversion the union was a union of unemployed. And without conversion the Government would have trouble getting all the matériel that it needs to beat the Axis...
...Good. The limited extent of U.S. matériel losses was most heartening, made complete liars out of the Japanese High Command. Lost...