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...will not be possible to defend the Philippines. Japan wants French Indo-China and The Netherlands East Indies first, can afford to wait until the Philippines become independent...
...best, Britain must fight for her life in the Mediterranean, and singlehanded defend her island and dominions. At the worst, she would be bulldozed or beaten into surrendering or sinking her fleet, leaving the U. S. between a German-dominated Europe and a Japan-dominated Asia, each with a powerful fleet...
...Vargas made it clear to us that if we permit the Axis to win in Europe, the Axis will not have to conquer what it covets in South America. . . . There will be dictators . . . who will ally themselves with Hitler and Mussolini. . . . Our problem, then, will not be how to defend this hemisphere against Europe. Our problem will be how to defend ourselves in this hemisphere...
...Asked for 500,000 poilus to defend England...
...vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think and speak about war as these authors did is one of the things we wish to defend, and if it can be defended only by war, then it is one of the things which will make war worthwhile...