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Because The Nation, left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
...suburban and junior-executive circles: "I hate Roosevelt's guts, but I'll vote for him sooner than for Taft or Dewey." The reason for the epidemic was Adolf Hitler, who had reawakened in America the dormant sensation of patriotism. And President Roosevelt, by his aggressive rearmament policy, had begun to deflect the U. S. businessman's hatred of the New Deal toward Berlin. Young Republicans mistrusted Roosevelt, but they mistrusted the bumbling, obsolete, Chamberlainesque rituals of their Party's Old Guard even more...
...which we can now throw into the scales, that victory could be averted, most of the defense program could be laid aside and the peace and security of the U. S. would be guaranteed far more positively than they are ever likely to be by any amount of rearmament we may undertake alone in a Hitler world...
Last week the U. S. rearmament program was still largely in the blueprint stage. But up & down the economy, certain factories, from steel to handkerchiefs, were beginning to stir to the increasing drum roll of orders, real and promised...
...Leveled off, then boomed after Roosevelt's rearmament message...