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Blasting the "synthetic and stumbling leadership of the Republican Party in these desperate times," Mr. Murphy declared: "There is no program worthy of the great tradition of the Republican Party in a period when the nation is in dire peril." All he could see was a record of "pseudo-leadership, petty partisanship, mediocre talents, personal and political aggrandizement at the sacrifice of principle." The Republican Party, said he, had been betrayed by its leaders...
...fresh sector in Europe had to be balanced against cries from Chungking (see p. 25); against the threat looming from the Aleutians (see p. 24) that Japan might soon menace both the U.S. and Russia with a new Siberian sector; against, above all, the renewed peril to Egypt and Suez...
...left to future arrangements and adjustments. I might remind you that the British Prime Minister actually proposed a union of France and England on the fall of France. No greater or more fundamental change could be imagined, and this was suggested at a period of grave crisis and peril. War accelerates changes...
...worst news for Russia last week was not the peril to Sevastopol, nor the Nazi advance below Kharkov. For the U.S.S.R. and her Allies, the worst news was that on the two fronts where the Germans attacked in strength last week they had more men, more planes, more tanks, more everything than the Russians...
...that would serve a double purpose. The seizure of the Kuriles would completely open the way for United Nations forces to flow into Manchuria and Karafuto. They would endanger the eastern horn of Hokkaido as the Karafuto offensive would endanger that to the west. So great would be the peril to Japan that Tokyo's first thought would be to withdraw its forces for the defense of the homeland. The United Nations could then accept 'absurd' risks. Once entrenched in Hokkaido, they need no longer fear any of the Nipponese far-flung pincers. The garrisons of Alaska...