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...avidly as it imitates Western bicycles and beer, the newspaper Asahi shrilled: "Jews re-elected Roosevelt for a third term. Jews coaxed Churchill to war against Germany. Jews are also backing Stalin. . . . Jews want bases in the Atlantic and Pacific, at Burma, and bases in China from which to bomb Japan...
...with the intricate problems of Lend-Lease aid to the Allies, he is daily called upon to balance the question of whether the U.S. will be safer if 50 new bombers are reserved for the Army against fighting to come, or sent to Britain, Chungking, Egypt or Singapore to bomb potential enemies today...
...Lloyd's of London, still doing business, offered odds of 1,000-to-1 that U.S. cities will not be bombed within a year. Specifically, Lloyd's offered insurance at that rate against bomb damage (or any other war damage) to homes, banks, hotels, etc. The rate for factories: $2 per thousand (because the policy also covers accidental damage...
...bombers-for-Britain took off with loaded bomb racks, flew the Atlantic in seven to eight hours. Moral: Given equally good bombers, plus willingness to sacrifice them in one-way flights, the Nazis can bomb the U.S. eastern seaboard...
...Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...