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Last week there were signs that a new determination had come to the U. S. Its form varied-there was determination to aid the Allies, determination to speed U. S. defense, determination to destroy whoever got in the way. There were casualties: >Dead was the politicos' alibi that "the country" could not grasp the issues of world conflict. Wrote steady-minded Columnist Ray Clapper from Kansas City...
...similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...
...last,"said the resolution, "of the delusion of security through neutrality, we recognize that the German National Socialist system is our enemy ... we face the fact that we are now in a state of opposition to the German National Socialist system, which . . . seeks to destroy our system of society and government...
...could do it: "The Germans . . . will have you helpless long before it is necessary to match arms with you. . . . They will strip you of trade first. . . . Britain has been your best customer. Conquered, she will be your customer no longer. . . . Without markets your armaments and welfare programs will destroy you ... for you cannot find these billions as your national income declines. Your unemployment will mount. Your social unrest will mount. You will be ready for propaganda and sabotage. . . . We are already destroying your own confidence in your democratic system. You cannot make up your minds...
Hitler and Hitlerism must be destroyed. Either Hitlerism will destroy America or America will destroy Hitlerism. The whole American people should become regimented in the undivided purpose of destroying the Germanic monster. Hitler has preached the total war. Let him get it. It will spell total destruction for him. But we shall save America. Edward Holton James '96, --From a letter to the Boston Transcript...