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...contrasted with a vague program of action. It began with foreign delegates reporting on the status of women and of the women's movement under totalitarianism. It ended, after about 20 hours of speechmaking and report-reading, with a Declaration of Purpose: ". . . to use our freedom to support, defend and preserve the Constitution, and to work for the progressive securing of freedom, social justice and peace for all people...
Some people thought William Allen White spoke out of turn last week. His Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies had, as he often pointed out, merely undertaken the job of crystallizing a popular opinion already in favor of giving Britain all aid short of war. The favorable reaction to the President's destroyer-bases deal was something for which Editor White rightly took much credit. Rightly, last week, the National Association of Accredited Publicity Directors, Inc. made Mr. White the recipient of their annual award for "outstanding service in publicity." Mr. White succumbed to the temptation...
...most necessary so soon after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...
...months ago, shortly after the U. S. Government had carried out its destroyers-for-bases deal with England, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies decided to hold a competition for a poster to help publicize its work. The Committee was promptly swamped by some 1,000 entries. Last week the Committee put 90 of them on exhibition in Manhattan, asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare...
...What is the best possible strategy that we can follow to defend the Americas...