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...more important than race was nation. The Finns had spent over 100 years as Russian subjects hungry for nationhood. They had achieved nationhood only after World War I. Now they wanted national boundaries they could defend, and that, to them, meant all of Sovietized Karelia...
...likes to fight for a principle which he knows from personal experience is not being put into practice, yet that is exactly the situation which the ordinary soldier or sailor in the United States armed forces faces today. Called on to defend the thesis that "all men are created equal," he is at all times acutely conscious of his membership in the lower stratum of a pernicious caste system that separates officer from enlisted man by an almost impassable gulf...
...left no doubt of his opposition to totalitarian aggression. The General believed it was drawing the country into a European war on the side of Britain. He was sure that Hitler could not invade the U.S. across 3,000 miles of ocean. He believed that England could defend herself, and could, if she would, make a negotiated peace with Germany by which she could keep her fleet and colonies and leave to Germany economic control of the Continent. He was confident that the U.S. could hold its own in world trade afterwards. As he figured it, the countries of Europe...
...idea. The young man, who had already organized a committee to spread the gospel of nonintervention, was personable Robert ("Bobbie") Douglas Stuart Jr., a Princeton graduate and a student at Yale Law School, son of a wealthy Quaker Oats Co. executive. The name of his committee: The Committee to Defend America First. The General joined immediately...
...decision to send all-out aid to Russia was as courageous in its way as the decision last year to defend the Mediterranean at a time (just after Dunkirk) when the British had nothing with which to defend themselves "but a few rifles and a few good boys in good planes. Since that time the British have brought their home strength somewhere near to the point of adequacy, but the sacrifice of major quantities of materiel from Britain and Egypt will be more than a noble gesture. It will be a real military risk...