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...skies over Britain were stormy. But over the coast of Europe the R. A. F. pounded the invasion ports as it never had before (see p. 30), and in Africa British arms put Italy to a historic disgrace. The tempo of diplomacy also quickened. Europe's statesmen played long-range power politics to pitch newer battlefronts on grounds of their own choosing...
Throughout the world last week life seemed to hang suspended on the eve of great events. Between the warring countries, and within them, forces were so closely in balance that positive action anywhere threatened to tip the scales sharply one way or the other. And all over the world statesmen, desperate or sanguine, knew, if the U. S. did not, that the biggest potential source of such positive action was the U. S. For positive acts, which the U. S. has at its fingertips, include not only aid to Britain, but loans for Latin America (see p. 58), food...
...statesmen who best appreciated the U. S. position was Adolf Hitler. Last week, in a speech in Berlin, the Nazi dictator talked of the might of German arms, their ability to defeat Britain (see p. 21). But he indirectly admitted that many Germans were uneasy about the U. S., for he roared that U. S. aid to Britain could make no difference, that Germany would torpedo U. S. aid before it reached the British Isles...
...newspapers and went to look at pictures, in the ponderous, heavy-walled Chicago Art Institute. The exhibition last week was a record of war and revolution. Its pictures showed hangings, ax-murders, mutilations, bloody massacres of innocent civilians, trains of plodding, bewildered refugees, the indecisive faces of weak, shambling statesmen, vacillating, incompetent rulers. They showed chaos, panic, famine. The savage, flaming scenes, more than a century old, had a familiar, contemporary look, for the world as it looked to Spain's great painter and social satirist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was as gruesome as the world...
...Moscow the sensitive Russians anticipated British and U. S. criticism by blustering that Russia would continue to follow an "independent policy." Said Izvestia: "There are in Britain and the United States some leading statesmen who believe that the United States . . . may sell to Britain everything . . . whereas the Soviet Union cannot sell to Germany even cereals without violating the policy of peace...