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...human civilization is not to perish, everything that is possible must be done to make war impossible in Europe. But the violent solution dreamed of by Hitler, a primitive person obsessed by ill-digested historical memories, is a romantic folly and a barbarous and bloody anachronism...
Jerseyman Henderson, tough, veteran New Dealer, was the speaker of the evening. For nearly an hour, his heart aglow, he talked about the system of free enterprise, pledged it should not perish...
Last week freedom-loving U.S. citizens -heirs of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and a great host of heroes-had genuinely good reason to fear that Freedom might perish from their land. For last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Gerald Prentice Nye cast aside all but the last veil of pretense and, in the pattern established by Adolf Hitler years ago, sought to make the Jews a public national issue...
...corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...
...Britton brought his campaign to a climax, proclaimed "the week for mobilization" of "Europe's invisible V army." Winston Churchill blessed the campaign with these words: "So long as the peoples of Europe continue to refuse all collaboration with the invader, it is sure that his cause will perish and that Europe will be liberated...