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This was an extraordinary charge. No German doubts Hitler's intentions. No Briton doubts Churchill's intentions. But last week Americans-isolationists and interventionists alike-wallowed in doubt about Mr. Roosevelt's intentions. The isolationists liked it. Some of them began to figure they had won the argument after...
...from knowing how effective particular attacks had been. But if the change was also made partly for reasons of home morale, it was an ominous sign. For the weekly report of merchant-tonnage losses has been the best barometer of how the war was going for Britain, and every Briton knows that although his country may survive disasters in the Mediterranean, it cannot survive losing the Battle of the Atlantic...
Winston Churchill asked the House of Commons these questions fortnight ago, and every Briton has been asking himself similar questions. British replacements would certainly not fill the gap. The most optimistic hope for 1941 is 1.000,000 tons, which after shipyard bombings may be closer to 750,000 tons...
...least of all the average Briton, questions that a British victory in World War II would mean a very "new order" in the British Empire and quite possibly in the world. Herbert George Wells & Co., Clarence ("Union Now") Streit, Winston Churchill, Lord Halifax and the Anglican Church have all had their say about Britain's war and peace aims. Last week in London, when Britain's most apparent war aim was to keep from getting licked, another group spoke...
Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...