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...routine: a rubdown at the New York Athletic Club, a swing along the docks to chat with his boys, the feel in his pocket of a horse-choking roll of green backs, careful attention to his fingernails and his bright ties-and above all vast quantities of food to nourish the Ryan paunch. Says contented Joe Ryan: "I like good food of all kinds, and I think my longshoremen want me to have...
...Road Ahead. Statesman Churchill dutifully patted Soviet Russia: "We nourish the warmest feelings of fellowship toward the valiant Russian people, with whom we have made a twenty years' treaty of friendship and mutual aid." That was all. For the united future of the U.S. and Britain, the Prime Minister's hopes were grave...
Geography, old hates and fears, and honest military opinion unite the diverse groups who believe the defeat of Japan more urgent and more important than the defeat of Germany. The West Coast faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan...
...truths and ideals must be the equipment of millions of humble leaders close to the task. Americans are too close to their destiny to rely only on a few far-away leaders. They must find near at hand those who can formulate the causes, interpret principle in definite acts, nourish their spirit by giving them tasks to work on in the direction of their hopes...
Such objections merely sidestep an issue which has become even more pressing since our entrance into the war. The "Princetonian" notes that "Japanese propagandists are capitalizing on American racial discrimination to nourish disunion at home and among our one thousand million colored allies. . . . It would be easier to deal with their charges if the kernel of truth contained in them were smaller." It is not only anomalous, but dangerous, to criticize British subjugation of the Indians, to scoff at Hitler's doctrine of blood and soil, while we continue blindly on our way, dealing with our own "burden" like imperialists...