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Total national forces assembled in massive fashion and directed against individual nations are difficult to withstand. We do not propose to adopt totalitarian principles or methods based upon them, but in order to defend ourselves successfully we must contrive our policies of counterattack. Our new democratic policies will call for administrative management of very high quality-superior personnel, superior fiscal management, superior planning, superior methods and practices-blending together the highest available skills of industrial management, military management, public administration; and summoning ability to meet emerging situations for many of which there will be found no precedents...
...Irish didn't fight for over 700 years for their survival as a nation in order now to embark on a policy which would invite annihilation. Consequently, Mr. de Valera's conscience is clear when he says "the Irish people will defend their rights in regard to these ports against whoever shall attack them...
Since the American republics first realized World War II was on they have been energetically thinking up ways to defend themselves against it. Set up were: a Pan-American-patrolled neutrality belt, machinery to take over European-owned New World colonies, plans for economic collaboration and mutual military defense of the hemisphere. But these blueprints for security had only theoretical, not practical, approval. Last week the first real test of Pan-American solidarity arrived...
...recent radio address sponsored by William Allen White's Committee to defend America by Aiding the Allies, President Conant recommended that the United States pledge itself "without reservation" to the defeat of the Nazis...
...whit. For Russia fears nothing from any nation on earth except Germany. Fear of Germany and shrewd appraisal of Germany's needs help to lead Russia into bargains with Germany. Last year's bargain gave Russia a year of peace, new territory, and easier frontiers to defend. This year's bargain, whatever it may be, was probably designed with the same ends in view...