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...events of the past few months have made it clear that we can no longer afford such nonsense. The Germans are strong in South America in certain sections, not so much be cause they crawl about like beetles performing their loathsome machinations at the dictates of the Nazi High Command, but because in the last 20 years numbers of them have worked hard, very hard, to make them selves and their families a living in South America and in doing so have performed real services to their communities and countries. To put the matter bluntly, the Germans have...
...Campaigner. Once he had taken the field. Franklin Roosevelt went campaigning almost as if 1940 were any year, as if the race were any race. His train moved with the exact precision that years of organization and the power of the Presidency command. Every Democratic precinct chief knew exactly when the President would pass, knew just when to have his crowd assembled. First stop was Wilmington, Del., where four years ago the President tipped over the Republicans for the first time in 24 years. The train stopped. A huge station crowd roared expectantly. As always, the President let them wait...
...assurance he gave with all the power he could command: "I give you this most solemn assurance: there is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect ... to involve this nation in any war or for any other purpose...
...before, Infantryman Marshall had given Flier Emmons a good idea of the force he was to command. Reorganizing the Air Corps on a wartime basis, he announced that the four Air Corps wings in the continental U. S. (now commanded by brigadiers) would be expanded to 17 as fast as pilots and planes were ready. Army airmen hoped that the 12,800 fighting craft needed would be ready before the promised delivery date (late in 1942), set out to expand the Air Corps's enlisted strength from 45,000 to 163,000. They did not need to worry about...
...motorized scouting unit, of which he was second in command, was forced to retreat from Rouen when French engineers prematurely dynamited a bridge over which much of their equipment was coming...