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Last month Archibald MacLeish penitently claimed that he and other writers of his generation (Ernest Hemingway, et al.) by their debunking of old slogans had "disarmed" the U. S., rendered it cynical and "defenseless before an aggressor" (TIME, June 3). Last week a famed educator got up and beat a rival breast. Before 1,000 visiting teachers at the summer session of Columbia University's Teachers College, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon made an extraordinary confession...
...Allies win this war, we can continue to drift along safely on our blissful policy of complete isolationism. If, on the other hand, the Allies lose, our security against the aggressor will no longer lie with the British Navy and the French Army, but only with a greater U. S. armament program than we ever have known before. The Allies are fighting our war. If we allow' them to lose, we will face the dictators alone...
...than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they have left it defenseless before an aggressor whose cynicism, brutality and whose stated intention to enslave present the issue of the future in moral terms...
...distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would need a guarantee from the U. S. "to protect North and South American commerce with any European state resisting an aggressor...
...Italy at first pretended unconcern. Then the press began to bridle, pointing out: 1) that Britain was trying to strangle Italian trade, but could not do so because Italy could carry her commerce in her own bottoms; 2) that Britain was trying to make Italy appear to be an aggressor in the Mediterranean. Air Marshal Italo Balbo's newspaper, Corriere Padano, tried to reverse the process. "The Allies have an urgent need to regain prestige they have lost," said Corriere Padano. "Can the Mediterranean supply that need?" Corriere Padano even went so far as to declare that Italy...