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...carry on the war in China. The same situation is true in Germany, for there work stopped on all prewar naval construction save submarines and perhaps some destroyers. So the U. S. steadily enlarges upon the 5:3 ratio with Japan; but it is not yet able to defend Asia, needs only one half its present fleet in the Pacific to prevent a western descent on the U. S. . . . WM. H. DAVIS...
Eire stubbornly stuck to its pitifully few guns last week, resolutely maintained its determination to defend itself from British protection as well as Nazi invasion. Irish politicos had reached the point of admitting fear of assault from the Continent. Declared Minister for Supplies Sean Lemass: "We must prepare for the worst and prepare quickly. In case of attack the Government might be put out of action." But Eire continued to fear the British Tommies as much as the German airmen, independently went ahead on its own. Meantime, across the border in Northern Ireland, Tommies massed anyway, ready to jump...
...fleet for the defense of the U. S. without at least some guarantee that the U. S. would become the open ally of the Empire. The U. S. has not the force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow for its own self-interest) but of Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, India and South Africa. The only satisfactory quid pro quo the U. S. could offer probably would involve going to war with Germany, for Britain would have no incentive to save her fleet unless...
...shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army, and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved...
...Dollan, Lord Provost of Glasgow, told Glasgow schoolboys that he had been a pacifist during World War I, was now a "repentant sinner": "I am beginning to wonder why it was that a good many of us in years gone by scorned the idea of training the young to defend their country...