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...from international law, appeals to reason. To this natural policy Welles has made a more practical addition: a search for friends. He is obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations to the U.S. with hooks of steel, loops of gold, the ever more important interchange of ideas and responsibilities...
...subjected. To fail to inform the people, waiting for them to lead him, is not democracy but demagogy. To act as if the people had to be manipulated is to deny the very virtues on which rests the hope of democracy; it is to think that free men will shrink from the truth and flinch in their duty...
...pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured as he held his head up and said to his British colleagues: "He may at any time attempt the invasion of this island. That is an ordeal from which we shall not shrink." He paused again. Then, for ears not in London but in Ankara, which last week suddenly became capital of the realm of anxiety, he said: "At the present moment he is driving fast through the Balkans and at any moment he may turn upon Turkey." Looking up into the distinguished...
...green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle back to the quiet peace of a ship...
...week he got off his bicycle and flew to Manhattan to speak at the National Interfraternity Conference, urge a higher standard of political debate, ask greater aid to Great Britain ("We must continue to help the fighting men of Britain to preserve that rim of freedom which is gradually shrinking and which, if we permit it to continue to shrink, will shrink to the edge of our own shores"). But at week's end he was still mum on the subject of the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee...