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...Doctrine, "no hostile ships, except for a few submarines and raiders, could get into the Atlantic at all." Second: "It is an illusion for people to believe that in the end the British Navy will pass easily to you. We in Britain shall certainly fight to the end to defend our country . . . [but] quite apart from the difficulties that would arise, if you were neutral, of handing over a fleet designed to protect the British Commonwealth to a power which could not use it for that belligerent purpose, there would be little left over for you. ... I am not concerned...
...Earle-World War I veteran, distinguished diplomatic historian, professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study -crammed into a letter to the New York Times the urgent thoughts that many a citizen has been thinking about U. S. Defense. Excerpts: "The United States must be prepared immediately to defend with its own resources, alone and unaided, not only continental United States but all, or considerable portions, of the Western Hemisphere. . . . We must proceed on the assumption that we shall have to go it alone. We cannot afford the luxuries of business as usual and politics as usual...
Agonizing to the friends it has left is the Soviet's nimbleness in shifting ground. Having backslid on its vows not to aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers...
...British regular Army units to defend the homeland consisted of 1,250,000 home troops, plus 350,000 reconditioned survivors of the B. E. F., plus 50,000 newly arrived and sunburned Australians, plus a third contingent of Canadian fliers and replacements, plus 500,000 draftees in training. Some help will come from 500,000 local defense volunteers armed with shotguns and sporting rifles. To the special anti-Blitzkrieg force of old reserves, 500,000 strong, their commander General Sir Edmund Ironside said...
...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...