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...Dakar, Casablanca, or in any French Mediterranean port. He even said there were no Axis forces in Syria, no airborne Axis troops in any French possessions of the Near East. France had no aggressive designs against Britain. But, said M. Henry-Have proudly, "the leaders of France . . . will defend French territories against any attack...
...historic statement of U.S. policy, Franklin Roosevelt last week told the world that the U.S. will defend not only Britain, not only the U.S., but China too. "Hitler's plan of world domination would be near its accomplishment today, were it not for two factors: one is the epic resistance of Britain. . . . The other is the magnificent defense of China. . . ." In effect, the President signed and sealed a new alliance. To the totalitarian Axis of Rome, Berlin and Tokyo, he opposed a rival, democratic Axis, reaching from London across the Atlantic to Washington, across the Pacific to Chungking...
Legalistically, the issue is this: if the U.S. convoys war materials to Britain, is this an "attack" on Germany, the nation whom Japan has agreed to defend in case of attack? Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, reported Correspondent Tolischus, thinks...
...Hotson is chairman of Haverford's campus committee for aid to Britain. Dr. William Reitzel, an associate professor, was a former vice chairman of Philadelphia's branch of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, is now a member of the Fight for Freedom Committee...
...what we call the American way of life we are going to defend. That sounds quite simple. Yet in defense of the American way of life it is the whole world we are going to shake...