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...Burma could China reach the sea. Step by step the Japanese had moved southward to cut outside maritime communications with China. Last week, although the U.S. State Department still minimized the Russo-Japanese Pact, more & more officials were realizing the effectiveness of Axis grand strategy: to destroy the Anglo-American position in the world by isolating the U.S. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann, espousing this view: The issue of 1941 is "whether the United States, cut off from Asia, from Europe, from Africa, from South America, and from the British Isles, is to be left alone, entirely isolated, incompletely armed...
...said so again last week: "Argentina will continue to maintain neutrality in the European war." It was significant that the No. 1 Argentine should refer to the World War as European. Replied U.S. Ambassador Nor man Armour (in a speech to the Buenos Aires English Club) : "Between those who destroy the law and those who observe it there is no admissible neutrality." The decision was a desperately difficult one for Argentina to make. In no free country was the economic outlook bleaker or the contrast sharper between what the nation wanted and what...
When he was questioned as to the possibilities of an English victory, Wheeler asked what constitutes a British victory. "England can save itself and its empire by making a peace treaty right away, but she cannot destroy the Germans so easily. It was impossible to prevent the Nazis from invading the recently conquered count- ries, and to attack Germany without a base on the continent will be much more difficult...
...more difficult to win than the battle of the war. All Europe will be a mad swirl of chaotic forces. . . . Our help must be of such a nature that neither a mad man nor a mad nation will ever again have the opportunity to kill millions of people and destroy tens of billions of dollars of property...
...into the war we shall not know entirely until we read the history that is now hidden. We are in it. We are in it all together. . . . The one war aim is to destroy Hitler...