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...Montana's Wheeler in the Senate (see p. 75), Charles Lindbergh on the air detected and resisted a drift toward total U. S. war. Nearer the core of U. S. fear and feeling was Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, writing in the New York Times...
Throughout the world the certainties of many past generations were no longer certain, the values of many generations valueless. In the Near East former masters were impotent, new masters sweeping nearer. India might soon be cut off from all contact with the mother country she has worried for so long. Japan looked southward toward almost defenseless prizes (see below). Much of Africa was about to change hands; much of the rest was being fought over (see p. 25). South America shook with totalitarian scares (see p. 32). The U. S. was far from safe...
...Italian people, rush to arms and show your tenacity, your courage, your valor." In Paris, which he was soon to leave as the Germans drew nearer, hard-pressed Premier Reynaud sighed:"And this is the moment that Mussolini chooses to declare war on us! France has. nothing...
...which still must be tempered by allowance for diplomatic contingencies. At that time national defense must go into high gear; only then will it be necessary to gird our loins for the struggle with Mephistopheles. Conscription today is unnecessary for America's best interests and dangerous as one step nearer to involvement in the present...
...Somme, 70 miles from Paris, an official press release placed them on Belgium's River Sambre, 80 miles farther away. Wythe Williams, Paris correspondent for the New York Times (now a commentator for Mutual Broadcasting System in Manhattan) slipped a dispatch past the censor hinting that they were nearer, but his editors at home missed the point. Not until the Battle of the Marne was fought and won (on Sept. 9) did readers in the U. S. realize that the German Army had come within 30 miles of Paris...