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...77th Congress had started, in a thoroughly confused, sour mood. Republicans were sore at Franklin Roosevelt for getting himself elected to a third term. They were sore at Wendell Willkie because he had lost, because he supported the President's theme of aid to Britain. Democratic isolationists, Anglo-phobes, Southern reactionaries glared distrustfully at Mr. Roosevelt...
...November, that Germany must realize in both the military and political fields that she could no longer win the war; it was possible, he said, that she might not entirely and necessarily lose the peace, if the Germans were helped by the political and diplomatic errors of the Anglo-Saxons...
...what it ought to mean. Surprisingly, for an airman, he represented the old school of the British Army. Although the Singapore custom was to take an afternoon nap, he began to drop off at odd and inconvenient hours-in conference, at dinner parties. He was full of a super-Anglo-Saxon complacency, told the public and his superiors that he was ready for come-Hell...
...greatest bastion of all is the fortress of the British Isles, and there were suggestions that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion...
Welch asked for an Anglo-American Federal Union to be set up immediately for the prosecution of the war. The United States, he said, "was invented as a war measure," and he proposed that the Union be continued after the war, with admission open to other "democratic" nations...