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...affairs, he, too, believed that the air forces had been hampered by the general Army and Navy commands; that in some respects U.S. conceptions of air power and its use are outmoded by the lessons of World War II. But he also understood that the first lesson of that war-and particularly of Germany's successes-was that effort by all arms must be coordinated, under a single high command...
...which snarled: "The British Empire was not built by the dozy fools who think we can 'muddle through.' And the muddlers will not save it for our sons. . . . Let us remember that in the last resort it is the 'under fifties' who will win this war-and not the over seventies...
Hitler obviously would like to cover up the Balkan ingress, and a possible way for him to do so is by persuading Italy to join Germany and Russia in forming a protective horseshoe around the Balkans, guaranteeing them against war-and perhaps divvying them up at leisure. Following the meeting at Brennero, rumors flew through Berlin that Russia's Molotov would soon go there for a meeting with Italy's Ciano. Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki rushed to Rome to make sure that Hungary's claims on Rumania were considered in any plan to change...
Although the Roman Catholic Church hates war as much as the next Christian, its attitude towards war has always been realistic. Modern simon-pure pacifism, as unrealistic as it is high-minded, has been fostered more by Protestants than by Catholics. Yet as World War II began to loom, widespread signs of pacifist leanings appeared among U. S. Catholics. At first, the pacifism of such leaders as Bishop John Aloysius Duffy of Buffalo had a narrow basis: fear that Catholics might be called upon to fight as allies of the U. S. S. R. With that fear removed, there remained...
Observers could explain the Administration's legislative Blitzkrieg only thus: 1) the U. S. public found out at once that both sides wanted the same thing-i. e., that the U. S. stay out of war-and were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high...