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Because many a coal car will be carrying munitions this winter, Office of Production Management last week urged householders to buy coal now. Expecting a torrent of orders although prices are 50? a ton above last year, coal dealers began stocking up. But most domestic users could not follow suit. Reason: many home and apartment-house bins hold less than a whole winter's needs...
...many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to explode: the river became a narrow torrent, the hills convulsed into forbidding mountains...
...Navy. . . . Even Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase 'no entangling alliances' . . . was quite prepared if necessary that we should 'marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.' " We have never fought for Britain, says Earle, until Britain could no longer fight for us. Against This Torrent would be an important book if it did no more than start readers reading Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton and John...
...with great concern the position in which Great Britain is placed, and should be sincerely afflicted were any disaster to deprive mankind of the benefit of such a bulwark against the torrent which has for some time been bearing down all before it." These words, from which Earle takes his title, were not uttered in 1941, but in 1803. Even more remarkable, they are not the words of a fervent interventionist, but one of America's most uncompromining pacifists--Thomas Jefferson...
This book cannot fail to be disconcerting to all isolationists, and provides an arsenal of historical munition in favor of the interventionist point of view. Brief though it is, "Against This Torrent" is a forceful argument against "the wave of the future." As a refreshing departure from the recent flood of dollar books that are all form and no substance, this volume should be read by everyone who is interested in the future of our nation...