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Last week, as bombs rained on Britain, its people had no time to ponder such post-mortems on the great evacuation, which started dramatically last Aug. 31, a few weeks later undramatically collapsed. But historians are not likely to overlook a clinical report on the evacuation which last week arrived...
Perhaps they were right. For by last week it was crystal clear that France's collapse had been preceded by a long, slow disintegration of the democratic and republican ideal, and in the process of disintegration was many a lesson for thoughtful U. S. citizens to ponder...
...miles beyond Pearl Harbor. That is too far for the main fleet to go, fight, return: its practicable battle radius (with due allowance for cruising and combat maneuvers) is 2,500 to 2,700 miles from its base.* Such is the elemental, geographic rule which Navy minds have to ponder. By such rules, John Paul Jones in his inferior Bon Homme Richard could not possibly have whipped England's Serapis...
...executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...
WASHINGTON--The 1941 national defense budget, already the greatest in the nation's peace-time history, tonight became the No. 1 problem of Congress as legislators paused in their plunge toward sine die adjournment to ponder the consequences of the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries...