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...fight alive until the U. S. has time to prepare for "any eventuality." What eventuality did he see? Said Colonel Knox: "There is a very serious situation in South America . . . almost made to order for penetration of the type Hitler perfected in Europe. We would be in deadly peril if a foreign power gained a foothold there...
...fact that if Britain defeats Germany, the U. S. will have no Nazi peril to cope with, was not often pointed to. Only a few people pointed out that the Battle of Britain had not yet been lost. "Further resistance is possible," said Columnist Walter Lippmann, "in a sense in which it was not possible to France." If the British Fleet does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political...
...President spoke for the nation: "The program unfolds swiftly and into it will fit the responsibility and the opportunity of every man and woman to preserve our heritage in days of peril. I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today...
...Time is limited." Well might Reynaud and his hands hurry last week. The peril was immediate, for as this week began, not only was France at war with Nazi Germany, but with Fascist Italy. Perhaps France had a millennium of freedom ahead-but it looked more like a mere thousand hours, perhaps less. The length of French resistance, the rigid odds of mechanization being what they were, depended directly on morale-of the troops and of the populace. Over the radio, Premier Reynaud addressed himself to this intangible factor. The enemy, he said, had embarked on three enterprises...
Typhoon (Paramount) illustrates in garish Technicolor the peril to a besotted beachcomber (Robert Preston) of stranding on a Polynesian isle with an uninhibited child of nature (Dorothy Lamour...