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Said Willkie: "The farmer, the worker, the investor and the businessman have been like four horses attached to the same evener, the reins in the hands of a reckless driver, and all horses plunging spasmodically in different directions...
...condemnation of Hitler. ... It is an irresponsible charge. . . . Hitler may well believe that he will find tougher opposition in an American defense program run by a man who has had firsthand business experience than in a defense program run by a man who lacks that experience. It is a reckless charge, because [it] is an attempt to arrogate patriotism for the Democratic Party...
Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers...
Then "the final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. ... It soared twice as high as any they had had before; and the moment it had burst, Mrs. Miniver remembered. 'Brightness falls from the air'-that was it! The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness...
...performance is not so long as the sun's it is just as consistent. He has often said that his ambitions were satisfied and he has always proved that they were not. A change in Hitler is not impossible but any nation that counts on it, takes a reckless risk-a risk out of all proportion to the probable cost of insuring against...