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...Monday night even the blindest party hack could see what had happened. For the first time since 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was in absolute command of the party he, had raised from a 15,000,000-vote low (1928) to a 27,000,000-vote top (1936). The purge that had failed in 1938 was being carried through in 1940. Two years ago Franklin Roosevelt had at last begun to carry out a pledge made to his intimates in 1932: to force the Democratic Party to become the liberal party...
...only National Guard officer who kept a top U. S. Army command during World War I was Major General John Francis O'Ryan, whose 27th (Rainbow) Division helped to crack the Hindenburg Line. Mustached, militant John O'Ryan brought home a rank of medals, an avowed love of peace and a deep conviction that war is better than some kinds of peace. Now 65 and retired to his law practice in Manhattan, he recently collected money to buy munitions for Finland, begged the U. S. to declare war on Hitler, denounced peace-at-any-price...
...German air power made the restricted waters of the Channel unsafe for the heavy units of the British Fleet and the fall of France underscored that fact. With the capture of the Channel coast near Calais it also became possible for Hitler to emplace heavy artillery units to command not only the Channel but the British shore opposite-guns which because they fire from steady platforms can outshoot those of the British Fleet...
Their plans looked to the further possibility that under these circumstances the fate of action might be decided by command of the air. If the British could command the air locally, as they appear to have done for a time at Dunkirk, they could put the invaders in an extremely uncomfortable position. If the Germans could command it they could lend their landing parties the equivalent of artillery support before artillery was actually landed. They could also land parachute troops and others to assist in the penetrations necessary to protect beachheads. Even if the original landing operations were not themselves...
...Noah's Ark is Demaison's account of a voyage he made when he was only 23. He was in command of the small Jouet des Plots, stitching along the west coast of Africa; his business was to buy up wild animals for the circuses, zoos, rich amateurs of Europe. He acquired, among other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died...