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...myth of U. S. neutrality: "Let us not hesitate-all of us-to proclaim . . . victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World . . . the whole of our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian world: "Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom, a people lodged in prison, handcuffed, hungry...
Loud was the muttering last week from U. S. citizens who feared the fifth column within their gates. Many a citizen pointed with alarm at U. S. Communists, U. S. Nazis, urged any and all means to combat them before it was too late. Just as loud, and more vocal, were the outraged counter-cries from the Communist Party, meeting in New York City for its national convention. In a report which took him four hours to read, General Secretary Earl Browder praised Soviet Russia as the "only one really neutral Great Power" remaining in the world, the protector...
...108th combat ship launched by the Navy since its renaissance began...
...spite of the President's high plans, his Army and Navy last week were amazingly unresponsive about buying more aircraft. The Navy's Chief of Aeronautics John H. Towers upped his final goal from 3,000 to 10,000, but said he wanted no additional combat planes at present; General Arnold in his emergency estimates requested cash for only 309 combat planes, 2,237 trainers, left the Air Corps's projected total at 8,066 (by mid-1941). Greatly disgruntled, the Senate wrote in an authorization of $100,000,000 for naval planes, specifically instructed the Army...
...leader's) with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns. In addition, a tank company includes headquarters troops (four tanks), passenger cars and trucks for reconnaissance and repair, plus combat, baggage and ration trains and a replacement group...