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...pressmen M. Baudouin continued: "Yesterday's French dead at Oran have rendered us the service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French warships were directed to intercept British merchant ships encountered on the high seas. Shore batteries were to attack any British ship approaching within twelve miles of the French coast. France was all but at war with Britain...
University of Wisconsin's President Clarence Dykstra: "We are appropriating billions for armaments to defend the American system and millions to train skilled workers and technicians. This will not create a national unity, nor will hysterical witch hunts. . . . One mobilization which we cannot neglect in our haste to prepare is the girding of our spiritual, moral and intellectual reserves...
...points out that peace is the normal status among nations and that educational systems should continue to promote the ideal of peace among men. At the same time, the association strongly advocates such preparedness as will make the U. S. fully able to defend itself...
...fense against the bloodthirsty brutalitarians. . . . Equally important and equally indispensable is an immediate program for the economic rehabilitation of our twelve million unemployed whose morale is shattered and whose allegiance to democracy is tenuous because the hungry and the hopeless fail to see what they are called upon to defend. . . . We rabbis must do more than echo the despair and perplexities of our people. We must bring to them a message of hope, rekindle their faith, inspire them with fortitude and courage...
...Daladier, kept him aboard his steamer Massilia guarded by Senegalese troopers. Off Casablanca lay six French cruisers, 21 submarines, 20 trawlers and minesweepers, 60 tankers and other vessels; also the incomplete new battleship Jean Bart, towed down from Brest with only four forward guns mounted. These, too, were to defend French North Africa...