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They cared-and would continue to. no matter how faint their voices in the thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...
...blinding barrage smoke, young German soldiers advanced clutching each other's belts. They were mowed down in solid platoons. But the shouted war song of wave after wave of those still to come drowned out the dying screams of those ahead. Over this human pandemonium roared the steady thunder of German artillery blasting the infantry's way, French artillery replying with sheets of screaming metal to stop the endless horde, and roaring swarms of airplanes from both sides diving and darting over the battle...
...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...
...Munichtime dragged away, voices joined the old chorus, saying this is a small world. The wheels rolled faster, Berlin and Moscow joined hands, Poland vanished in a clap of thunder. World War II crystallized Isolation as the dominant U. S. mood...
...recklessness. The French remember that in World War I the ghastly risks and losses of Gallipoli were his responsibility as First Lord of the Admiralty, and Parisians feared last week that Mr. Churchill and Herr Hitler would soon be competing in a swiftly rising crescendo of blood & thunder...