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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...everyone knew that Britain's aircraft production was still half Germany's, that the Nazis could raid by thousands while the R. A. F. must still husband its scores and hundreds. Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express came flatly out with the admission that aircraft production had seriously declined due to bombardment...
...well recall during my recent visit to three capital cities in South America the vast throngs which came to express by their cheers their friendship for the United States. I remember especially that above all the cheers I heard one constant cry again and again, one shout above all others: 'Viva la Democracia...
...submerged under a wave of popular endorsement. Never before had a T. U. C. conference attracted such wide attention, achieved such prominence in the newspapers. Wrote London's Times: "Here again was the recognition of relations of cooperation for great and common ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults recede into their proper perspective behind the one dominant figure of this war. This figure is the British workingman, his arms bared, his muscles flexed, and the sweat upon his brow...
...Carter Wesley, A.B. (Fisk), LL.D. (Northwestern), onetime first lieutenant in the A. E. F., publisher of seven Texas papers (the Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin, Longview, Lovelady Informer, the Dallas Express), backed Roosevelt in 1932, 1936, this year backs Willkie. Says Publisher Wesley: "We are supporting Willkie not because we think that he can do more for the Negro race, but because Negroes will share in the betterment of business if Willkie is elected...
...University is not a "foreign and remote thing" but consists primarily of the faculty and the students. "University freedom" means that the faculty as a group is not subject to any restrictions from higher up; "academic freedom" is the right of any individual member of the faculty freely to express his own views...