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Scene I: Somewhere off the Atlantic Coast the Potomac is hove to in a light swell. A big grey war vessel comes over the horizon. Franklin Roosevelt is taken to it. The warship sets its course to the northeast...
...listen, men, if it happens again That a hidebound old officer's near, Don't whistle and yell when you see something swell -Be content with a general leer! LEWIS F. OWEN Oradell...
Britain and Russia hoped the trickle would soon swell to a torrent and wash away their apprehensions. Prime British fear is of a back stab like the Nazi-inspired revolt in Iraq last spring of Rashid Ali El-Gailani. For at almost every compass point from Teheran, the Shah's capital, the Russo-British positions are potentially vulnerable...
This reduction did not necessarily mean that the Battle of the Atlantic was going much better for the British. In June Britain had no Grecian disaster or Cretan fiasco to swell her shipping losses to the figures of April and May. Nevertheless June was 15% better than the monthly average since the Battle of the Atlantic began in earnest in June 1940. Why, when things were looking up, did the British...
...result of the Battle of Russia may well be millions of Russian workers to swell the Nazi labor battalions; new Slav divisions to swell the Nazi Armies. Where can Britain and the U.S. turn for man power to offset this menacing mass? If Britain is democracy's European bastion, the U.S. democracy's arsenal, China is its untapped source of vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will...