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This attitude has been interpreted by many older people as a stubborn cynicism and blindness to the "moral" issues of this war. A more understanding observer, President Conant, told the Jewish War Veterans last week that "The errors of youth today, if they are errors, are symptoms of their idealism." This idealism, the President said, has had peace as its single aim; it must now be broadened and focused on the maintenance of American traditions and the American way of life...
...last week the President had not yet made it clear to the nation that preparedness against war was not a New Deal program but a national program. Many a stubborn citizen could honestly ask: Am I offering my support to the President or to the Politico...
Carriers, the doctors went on, infect their wives after a "socalled sulfanilamide cure," make "absolutely symptomless carriers" of them too. How long the stubborn germs persist, how they can be conquered, the doctors do not know...
...French mechanized force which had reached Breda to the southeast, were all too slow, powerless or witless to intervene. Dutch Foreign Minister Elco van Kleffens said German parachutists disguised as Dutch police prevented it. In any case, preceded by one last torrent of air bombs upon Rotterdam, which stubborn Dutch fighters had twice cleared of Nazis, the invaders rolled over the bridge and into the city...
...Government. Few Prime Ministers would have tried to hang on with a majority of 81 in a House which is normally Conservative by 210. But for two long days stubborn Neville Chamberlain clung to his office while Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity...