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...told, without any evidence, that America stands in greater danger today that at any previous time in her century and a half of history we have been warned, in bald assertion, that Britain was our first Ine of defense against the German, and that if, Britain fell, Hitter would straightway be on our shores. We have been startled with declarations, unsustained by any facts, that in 30 or 60 days we would face the hour of supreme crisis--only to see the days pass and no crisis appear at all. We have been told, at regular intervals, when popular excitement...
...sputtering motorcycles. In Louisiana's Army maneuvers, soldiers of three divisions had met in the city, were settling down to fight for its possession. And Alexandria loved it. But Army authorities, mindful of the awful traffic tangle that 8 o'clock would bring, were horrified. Umpires straightway ordered the troops out of town, saved Alexandria from further fighting by an old maneuver device. Alexandria was declared an "impenetrable swamp...
...Cover) Through the slow winter months Britain and her friends had nursed their little hope, and watched it grow. They had made much of Adolf Hitler's big mistake-not invading Britain straightway after Dunkirk. They had seen the R.A.F. stand up to the Luftwaffe. They had relished the Greeks' brave stand against bad Italian timing. They had let themselves enjoy, and enjoy again, like lingering bouquets of taste, triumphs in Libya and on the Mediterranean. They had heard noises of the U.S. stirring in its sleep. They even began to talk of a turning point...
...street clothes, men in frock coats, military uniforms and mufti. Once a day six choristers from the Paulist choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window attracted almost too much attention. Army authorities straightway protested against this unseemly display of the uniform, and Franklin Simon had to substitute a vaguely military garb. The New York Police Department served the store with a summons for broadcasting without a permit. After three days of it, Franklin Simon decided to call the whole thing...
This First-Ladylike act set off U. S. journalism's Angry Man: freckly, scowling Westbrook Pegler, who straightway attacked Mrs. Roosevelt as "a cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights and independence of the individual American," said her ultimate goal was "some scheme containing the most binding elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable...