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This seemed to reduce the efforts of the White Committee to mere high-pressure propaganda. Lectured the New York Times next day: "Mr. White's remarks in this instance are unfortunate. ... A committee similar to Mr. White's could have pulled any number of smart tricks to get...
The citizens of 1940 are the trustees of the future of these United States. We shall be rightly condemned by posterity if we needlessly become involved in war and squander life and treasure. But we shall be yet more guilty in the eyes of our descendants if we fall to...
"It can be argued that we are now living in these days of terrific peril for the very reason that we were too short-sighted when we fought a war a generation ago. We thought then that by a relatively minor effort we could once and for all reform the...
Through the squadron, like an exciting rumor through a bored crowd, ran the warning: enemy planes sighted. The carrier broke course and nosed into the breeze; the destroyers hung by her flanks watchfully. Three long-nosed fighters roared along the carrier's broad flight deck and up into the...
Last week the crudest episode in the war against civilians had a happy sequel. A lumbering Sunderland flying boat on convoy duty sighted a lifeboat 600 miles off the Irish coast. Aboard were 46 survivors of the City of Benares, in the sudden sinking of which fortnight ago 83 children...