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...will be the decisive gamble of my life. . . . But it will never stop me from firmly retracing my steps and attacking Russia when my aims in the West have been achieved. . . . We must win the victory of German race-consciousness over the masses eternally fated to serve and obey. We alone can conquer the great continental space, and it will be done by us alone, not through a pact with Moscow. We shall take this struggle upon us. It will open to us the door to permanent mastery of the world...
Steel mills were the first major industry to obey President Roosevelt's "unlimited emergency" decree; most of them worked right through Memorial Day, thus held production close to capacity. Best news, however, came from utility offices. Despite a scarcity scare in the Southeast, power output last week was 3,011,754,000 kilowatt-hours, 16.3% above a year ago. Like business as a whole, the gains were not uniform. Output of New York's Consolidated Edison was only 0.4% above 1940, while North American Co. (St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington...
...Somehow the conversation got around to a subject in which neither was more than academically interested: FBI's investigation of sabotage in defense plants. But before they had parted they had thought of an idea that excited them both: a series of posters to encourage factory workers to obey regulations and keep their mouths shut. Hungerford and Sherman took their idea to FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. G-Man Hoover liked it too, and Hungerford and Sherman went to work...
...conscious defender of the workers' conquests and oppose groups attempting to discredit them." But the workers, he went on, must go forward with the country, obey the laws, learn discipline, above all cooperate with the Government. Scarcely skin-deep under the rhetoric was the threat that Avila Camacho would allow no actions of labor to smother the boomlet in Mexican business that has popped since his inauguration. But surprisingly enough the conservative press saw in the speech a move to the left on the President's part...
...good a thing for totalitarianism to miss. Instead of the Scouts' motto, "Be Prepared." Italy's Balilla leaders preached: "Believe, Obey, Fight"; instead of democracy, "Mussolini is always right." Naziism began its youth organizations with a will, started pumping them full of fine Nazi phrases: "There is no greater honor than death for the Führer," "Command and we follow...