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...surprising result was obtained last month by a Fortune poll of public opinion. The question: "Should the Democratic powers, including the United States, now stand firm together at any cost to prevent Hitler or Mussolini from taking any more territory at the expense of other nations?" The answers: 56.3 per cent, Yes; 31 per cent, No; undecided, 12.7 per cent...
...More territory" is of course merely representative of power on a world scale; the U.S. would still not fight, or even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies...
...speaking, destructive opposition was forming; one can almost hear the Congressional hand-organs beginning to grind out "entanglement," "George Washington," and, doubtless, "un-American influences." But rationally viewed, the President's program for combating totalitarianism, stopping short of military sanctions ("We rightly decline to intervene with arms to prevent acts of aggression") and emphasizing economic strength, with which the United States is richly endowed is constructive and far-sighted, and deserves Congressional cooperation...
...unanimously passed resolution recommending legislation to prevent foreigners resident in the Americas from exercising collective political rights claimed for them by their countries of origin. Under this restriction it is doubtful whether even a U. S. citizen resident in a Latin American State would be allowed to exercise his absentee vote in the U. S. Hence the U. S. delegation voted for a measure which, if passed, would probably be most unpopular at home. But the measure's chief benefit was obviously to Argentina, Brazil and Chile, where large German and Italian blocs have been agitating for minority rights...
When a Department of Justice assistant produced a memorandum by a former Hartford-Empire lawyer saying one of its "main purposes" was getting patents "on possible improvement of competing machines so as to 'fence in those and prevent their reaching an improved stage," Mr. Smith simply said that was not company policy...