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...slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense" and prepare America for offense--for an invasion of Europe by American arms, an invasion aimed at crushing Germany...
...there is little that Stalin can do but make the best bargain he can. Britain could give him no help against Germany. Yet it is Britain which has enabled Stalin to pursue his none too cooperative tactics so far-not by diplomatic pressure or concessions, but by keeping her fleet intact.In one of his occasionally brilliant analyses of the war, U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann last week outlined his view of the relationship between British seapower and Comrade Molotov's visit...
...entire air fleet of American Export Airlines is one twin-engined Consolidated flying boat. Early this week this boat was ready to rise from Lake Pontchartrain's dirty waters, point its nose southward over the green Gulf of Mexico. To outsiders it was the first Government-approved flight across the Gulf, and it presaged triweekly air service between New Orleans and Central America over a new short-cut route. But to insiders it was the bell for Round II of one of the hottest industrial fights since Harriman v. Hill. The fight: American Export v. Pan American...
Vichy wearily and flatly denied any intention to declare war or turn over its fleet; its Washington Embassy equally flatly added: "There is no foundation whatsoever to the rumors of peace negotiations, territorial cessions by France to Germany or to Italy, use of French strategical bases by those powers, or curtailment of French sovereignty in any point of France or her Empire." The crystal balls were retired and irritated newshawks pestered the Vichy Government to say, if these things were not discussed, then what the dickens...
...anybody's guess. Fact is, the majority of the French people are anti-German, anti-British, pro-French, utterly war-sick. An attempt on the part of the Vichy Government to rouse them to warfare against their former ally would be suicidal. Attempted cession of the fleet to Germany would as likely as not result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British hands; France's one powerful trump card is negative-when German conditions press...