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...enough; the only force the U. S. can quickly bring to the conflict is a moral and political power. Organizing the democracies in a federal union, with a guarantee that the German people would be admitted to this union when they retired to their frontiers and restored their basic rights as men, would help to upset the German Government from within, and enable the democracies to coordinate their action strongly enough to win against Hitler. Calling...
Author Streit back for an ovation, the clubwomen voted, 1,092-10-8, to urge the program of a world-wide federal union as the basic objective of U. S. efforts...
...international order (in which so many of us had placed our earlier hopes)-until that time the national state must command our loyalties. I have no more sympathy than many undergraduates I know for certain types of Anglophile and Francophile enthusiasm deriving from sentimental considerations and unconnected with basic American interests. I, too, have many close friends in France and England. But I have such friends as well in Germany and elsewhere. I should ask nothing better than to gather all of these men of good will and, like the Acharnians, to make our separate peace and found that...
...Town (United Artists) is Grover's Corners, N. H., population 2,200. It is a basic unit of U. S. life, lost in the continental mass of U. S. farmland...
...poetic materials to which Americans always respond-the casual routine of their lives amid the sights, sounds, smells of the American earth. Because Sam Wood, who directed Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and a splendid cast have transferred Our Town, the play, to film without disturbing this basic poetry, Our Town, the picture, is a cinema event...