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...Harvard professors and 40 prominent alumni are included in the nucleus of a Massachusetts branch of the Committee to defend America by Aiding the Allies, according to Mayo A. Shattuck '18, Boston lawyer. President Conant has been named honorary chairman of the group...
...object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler the Horrible and his horde...
...them fume and threaten; the right to insult was given us under the constitution. Let them howl in protest; we know it is all propaganda. Let them attack the freedom of our press; we shall defend it to the last. We shall never forsake our unbiased, unfettered press which alone can keep our heads above the maclstrom of distortion and infamy...
...Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, confessing at last that the U. S. Navy, even when operating near its home shores, is helpless without enough aircraft to support and protect surface ships. (Admiral Stark told a House committee: ". . . Surface units cannot of their own resources cover, protect and defend the areas of vital interest without the assist ance of strategically located coastal or island shore-based aircraft.") The most revealing thing about U. S. Defense was a little slip of the tongue by Major General Charles M. Wesson...
...power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been to defend that front were now coiled up like an anchovy on the wrong side of the German lines...