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...well started. Yet Mr. Roosevelt talked big of ordering 12,000 more planes for the U. S., supplying 12,000 more to Great Britain-all in addition to the 33,000 already on order for delivery by April 1942. Moreover, the President proclaimed a new rule-of-thumb: hereafter, roughly half of U. S. arms production would be for the British...
According to Republicans, an irresponsible New Deal, filled with treachery, fostered by corrupt bosses, was making hash of the defense program, dragging the country into war, bankruptcy, dictatorship. According to Democrats, Republicans recklessly and deliberately falsified the record, and Willkie was an evasive trickster, under the thumb of the most corrupting influence in U. S. politics today, the utilities. Examples of extreme partisan bitterness...
...long faced the fact that it is unsafe for a fleet to fight too far from its base, for unless ships can get back to their docks and repair shops, in case of damage, they are at the mercy of enemy submarines and air raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila...
...Balkans, Hitler would have a different military problem. No Balkan State has an army which could offer serious opposition to Mussolini or Stalin, much less Hitler. Two Balkan States, Hungary and Rumania, are already largely under Germany's thumb. But if Russia (already on excellent terms with Bulgaria) or some other power should take a hand in the Balkans, Hitler might have pressing reasons for intervening. Moreover, if Hitler is to pick up some of the French, Dutch and British possessions in the Far East his route in that direction leads through Istanbul and Bagdad. That also...
...most Democrats sat back with their feet up, cocked their thumb at the polls (Roosevelt in a landslide), the betting odds (Roosevelt 7-to-5), and waited placidly for Election Day. New York Democrats held their most listless convention in many a year and Chairman James Aloysius Farley never once mentioned President Roosevelt. The New Deal got no cheers...