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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Italian will fight just as bravely and as honorably as any man who fights for justice. I know this to be true because I am of that blood. I am 22 and await eagerly my draft call to help defend America...
...days later, the Duke left the Duchess' side again, this time to hop into a U. S. Navy plane and pay a call on President Roosevelt, whom he had not seen since 1919. Returning from his visit aboard the Tuscaloosa, the Duke told reporters that he and the President had discussed naval bases and CCC camps, which he thought he might try in the Bahamas...
...record address to an enthusiastic audience, returned to Manhattan to say his say to the ex-Willkie Club members: "I have a tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on. ... One of the difficulties in American public life has been its failure to call its ablest and best men in public service. ... I hope that as a result of the Willkie Club movement you will develop men and women to serve. ... I hope that in five or ten years or even in two years I will see many of you running for Congress, the Senate...
More or less under arms, when the Army last totted up (Nov. 21), were 106,833 mobilized National Guardsmen, 387,811 three-year Regulars, only 18,000 of an expected 90,000 one-year draftees and volunteers. Call of 96.000 additional Guardsmen must be delayed (anywhere from one week to two and a half months) ; so must further drafts. Only heartening item in this list was the rapid increase in Regulars (up from 242,000 since last June). Putting Regular enlistments ahead of Guard mobilization and the draft made sense, because the Regulars must bear the burden of training...
Rout. The fighting was taking place on the coastal plain, which the Italians call the Marmarica. Some 30 miles inland from Buqbuq an escarpment juts suddenly above the desert, 300-600 feet high. This escarpment runs diagonally towards the coast and meets it at Salum, hard by the Libyan border. Were it a man-made barrier like China's Great Wall, the escarpment could be no more effective as a wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased...