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Cried the London Sunday Express: "Do we even now understand that we are at death grips in a fight for our lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
...Toes in Peril...
Unless the U.S. felt its peril as Franklin Roosevelt felt it, national morale, although basically vigorous, would never rise to the problems before the nation. Only then would the nation understand the thing which was paramount in his own mind: that aid to Great Britain must be given not for Britain's sake but for America...
After his advanced guard had been cut off the air, Head Putschster Coles Phinizy '42 announced wittily, "The co-operation in our blitzkrieg shows that there is an alarming amount of fifth colum activities in the United States and we fear that democracy is in peril...
...skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...