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...Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters: "The United States needs the St. Lawrence Seaway for defense . . . tremendously needs the power project which will form a link in the Seaway . . . to produce aluminum and more aluminum for the airplane program which will assure command...
...would be a long job, in any case. To rearm or rearmor ships now with the Fleet would take five to six years, the Navy Department announced. In that case, the seven months lost between May and December 1940 probably made no difference to the Navy's high command. But anxious civilians took the words out of Harold Stark's mouth: "Dollars cannot buy yesterday...
...more German troops rolled into Rumania this week, there were rumors that the Chief of the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, himself, was on the way. But Premier Antonescu had already made a last, desperate effort to unite his country behind a common cause. In the snow-swept town of Alba Iulia, in what was left of Rumanian Transylvania, he brought stirring news to 100,000 cheering Guardists, soldiers and civilians. "I went to Berlin and Rome for Transylvanians," said Premier Antonescu, then quoted the Führer's answer: "On your shoulders...
...faced Italian High Command tried again to laugh off continued Greek advances. The enemy, it was said, was merely capitalizing on a "strategic retreat" by an expeditionary force that had had the bad luck to run into dirty weather. To prove that everything was going "according to prearranged plan," General Ubaldo Soddu, who was rushed out last month to replace Commanding General Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, was upped last week from corps commander to Army commander and confirmed in his post...
This challenge to America and to the democratic national states summons the use of every energy at our command, in the most effective manner possible. Both external affairs and internal relations will be subjected to the very severest strain, and will test to the limit our capacity for readjustment to the realities of the modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash...