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...declared that the U.S. was ready to fight for democracy (see p. 13), but Hitler spoke one long sentence that sounded as if he already knew what Franklin Roosevelt would say: "When today the democratic agitators of a country to which the German people have never done any harm . . . threaten to choke the National Socialist people's State . . . with the force of their capitalistic system and of their material production, then there can be only one answer: the German people will never again experience such a year as 1918, but will rise to still higher achievements in all branches...
...first three of these threaten Turkey. Samothrace and Lemnos can be used to choke the Dardanelles, and Mytilene lies very close to Turkey's west coast. The others threaten British shipping in the whole Aegean. Britain can have no power north of Crete now except naval power, and the occupation of these islands-and probable occupation of more later-threatens to clear Britain out of the whole region...
...yesterday, Dr. Salvemini spoke out concerning a new brand of Fascism which he feels may threaten America. It is the Fascism of corporate business enterprise in this country...
Mission of the bombers is to seek out the air invader at sea or in bases he may have seized, near the Western Hemisphere. The interceptor's job is like that of Britain's Fighter Command: to take the air when raids threaten, knock the enemy's bombers out of the skies. Last week, having assigned four flying major generals to command the Air Forces (Northeast, James E. Chancy; Northwest, John F. Curry; Southeast, Barton K. Yount; Southwest, Jacob E. Fickel), the Army announced its interceptor commanders: four brigadier generals-all slim and wiry, as pursuit pilots...
...held tonight at 8 o'clock in Emerson D, the meeting is designed to give Harvard the non-interventionist viewpoint of the Eastern situation, discouraging military action against Japanese plans which might threaten our holdings there...