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...people of Singapore were not especially blameworthy, though they were universally blamed. They were behaving pretty much as the people of Paris did when France fell, as those of Los Angeles doubtless would if their city were in danger...
When Winston Churchill finished, his critics reflected that he had given no convincing answer to charges that Britain's war councils, both productive and military, are rotten with dead wood and cluttered with red tape, that production could be 40% greater. Although he was doubtless right that Britain had been unable to reinforce Malaya, he did not explain away the fact that the British high command had mistakenly believed that Malaya could successfully repel any attack. His skillful apologies for the military past were little assurance for the future...
Virtually all Morgan stockholders were identified with the company, were ex-Morgan partners or their families until this sale. The absence of a market for the stock was doubtless a hardship to more than one upper-bracket heir...
...strikers' spokesmen promised: "We'll buy defense bonds with the money A.F. of L. wants as dues and fees." More than a score signed up for Navy construction jobs in Hawaii. There, under Civil Service, they can toss their union cards into Pearl Harbor. And doubtless will...
...first 289 pages of Design for Power recapitulate the recent history of Japan, the U.S., five European countries. Says Professor Schuman on page 290: "The gentle reader who has come thus far in these ungentle pages will doubtless by now be weary and not a little puzzled. A story of grief and pain seven times told is tiresome and baffling. No sane man or woman relishes any such morbid preoccupation with crime and folly...