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...Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow for its own self-interest) but of Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, India and South Africa. The only satisfactory quid pro quo the U. S. could offer probably would involve going to war with Germany, for Britain would have no incentive to save her fleet unless the U. S. offered her hope of victory...
...America and the totalitarian States, in a new Association of Nations with regional departments such as the Pan-American Union, the British Commonwealth of Nations, a European Federation, a Pacific Conference, the U. S. S. R. What distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would need a guarantee from the U. S. "to protect North and South American commerce with any European state resisting an aggressor...
...shadow crew of 378 was signed on "for the run to Southampton," at four quid two and ten (about...
...producers, but had thought TIME dry behind the ears. Now that you are off to a good start, dish up something worthy of record. As for the yarn in question, there are plenty of other farmers in Alaska who have taken the same rap without bothering to shift their quid to discuss it. And 35 below is practically corn-growing weather...
...strategies, Vandenberg constantly counseled with aging, astute Jay Hayden, of the Detroit News, who often shifts his tobacco quid disgustedly as he blue-pencils the reek from Vandenberg's rhetoric...