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...Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
...three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many potential uses (see map). A drive in the East could weaken the British Empire gravely. Meanwhile bombing would continue Britain's terrible wearing down...
...Author Maurois offers nine suggestions, four of which are: 1) a nation must be ready to die for its liberties or it will lose them; 2) political parties are passengers on the same boat-if one wrecks it, all will go down; 3) youth needs protection against teachings which weaken the country; 4) liberty deserves to be served with more passion than tyranny...
...factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...
...necessary and right for him. The task of Wendell Willkie's acceptance was almost as great-it was to challenge Franklin Roosevelt without intensifying class and party hostilities, without plunging the U. S. into a desperate political fight over foreign policy, without arousing the bitterness that would weaken U. S. defense. There was a tone to be set for a critical campaign. And there was a huge, hot and widely traveled crowd that would be listening...