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...assertion that the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia and the Low Countries was merely a measure to forestall Allied aggression. Then he launched into a step-by-step review of Germany's victorious campaigns, heaping praise on his fighters, some of whom had just paraded into Berlin, on triumphant leave. He lauded his Italian ally. Germany is now stronger even than at the outbreak of war, he boasted, and Russo-German relations have been firmly established, with their respective spheres of influence clearly defined...
Greatest paradox was that the innumerable explanations of the Willkie victory converged at a single point. That point was Franklin Roosevelt. To Cartoonist Harry Bressler of the New Haven Journal-Courier, it was simple: he pictured a triumphant, rearing-back Roosevelt looming over the delegates like one of mountain-spoiling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's gigantic stone visages. More complex was the realization that more than any other candidate Wendell Willkie stood as a symbol of opposition to the New Deal -not to its ideas, to which he subscribed far more than many a Republican present, but as a businessman...
...political philosophy that this career has hammered out for him is simple. His belief in a final Hitler defeat is no mere Little Englander's faith in muddling through. It comes from his faith that "what force alone constructs has neither permanence nor life." The concept of triumphant conquest he answers with Bacon's epigram: "Rome did not spread upon the world; the world spread upon the Romans." Says he: if the Nazis, the Fascists and the Japanese "had even a glimmering of this profound truth they might become centres of lasting world systems...
...European democracy retreated last week before the triumphant armies of world revolution. U. S. citizens talked distractedly of intervention, defense, democracy, appeasement, protection of civil rights, the fifth column-especially the last...
...himself photographed in front of the majestic Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge, thus proving that his bombers had not wrecked it. And from his headquarters issued triumphant messages to his soldiers and his people. Excerpts...