Word: pre-war
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Joseph P. Kennedy, pre-War isolationist and former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who declared in the spring of 1941 that "it is nonsense to say that an Axis victory spells ruin for us," last week called on his onetime friend Franklin Roosevelt. His purpose: to offer his services to his country...
Hollywood was willing and eager to help. In the long pre-war days the world's biggest cinema industry piddled around making training films for the armed forces, an occasional hammy patriotic picture of its own, tried its hand at box-office propaganda and got smeared by U.S. Senate isolationists for its pains. After Pearl Harbor, Hollywood pleaded with Franklin Roosevelt's Government Films Coordinator, white-haired, volcanically patient Lowell Mellett, for an important assignment...
Completely reshaping the outdated, pre-war Defense Service Committee, the Student Council and Phillips Brooks House have organized all student war work into a streamlined War Service Committee...
...gigantic need for ships by multiplying an already fabulous assignment. Last week the Commission let contracts for 258 more merchant ships. Week before, the Commission upped its schedule to 20,000,000 vital tons, 1,800 cargo vessels, almost as big a tonnage as that of the entire pre-war British Fleet-to be built in two years...
Parachutists landing on Cyprus' two mountain ranges, or on the "Mesaoria" between them, would be met by 350,000 Greek-speaking Cypriots and Turks, all loyal to Britain. Defenses long neglected in pre-war days have been rushed to completion; they even utilize 14-foot walls built by the Crusaders. An attack might cost thousands more lives than Crete. But the plunder would be greater...