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...body when it is implied (as it is so often in public statements these days) that our choice is a clear-cut one between democracy a la mode 1925 and a Nazified world. For what it is worth, my own predictions is that the western world stands on the brink of revolutionary developments which would, even with Allied victory, leave little in Europe recalling the democratic institutions we have known. And in such a world America would perforce be carried long way on the road to regimentation. But with Allied victory this regimentation would be self-imposed and milder...
...Mail last week as the full gravity of the Norwegian debacle filtered through the blackout of official information. That Hitler had succeeded in snatching a neutral state from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know, said Laborite Ellen Wilkinson, how Hitler could seize Norway "with 1,500 men and three brass bands...
...would take the trouble to check these facts with the American Bible Society you would find out that in 1905 the Rev. Herman Frijling and the Rev. Leonard P. Brink began the reduction of the language of the Navajo Indians to print. This work has been progressing continuously ever since...
...Snow in Summer a Michigan dentist's wife wins a prize for a novel, goes in innocence to Manhattan, suffers cruel treatment at the hands of literary racketeers, returns to find her once secure family at the brink of disruption...
...This totally wrong war was a self-born evil, and therefore no good can come from it. Every country involved must come to a conference table before irreparable damage has been done. ... If the world does not pause on the brink of catastrophe, all nations will suffer the same fate. . . . Holland has received assurances from the belligerents that her neutrality will be respected, if Holland herself remains neutral...