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...flaw in the picture-as Neville Chamberlain might perhaps explain-is that appeasement is apt not to work. To sacrifice China might well prove no more fruitful than was the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, and when the U. S. had its Fleet in the Atlantic Japan might, like Hitler, forget her pledges...
...Nazi peril to cope with, was not often pointed to. Only a few people pointed out that the Battle of Britain had not yet been lost. "Further resistance is possible," said Columnist Walter Lippmann, "in a sense in which it was not possible to France." If the British Fleet does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political power to prevent Hitler from obtaining command of the Atlantic Ocean...
...ring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral of the Fleet Erich Raeder in a blue naval uniform and upturned stiff collar, also carrying a baton; Deputy Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess in a grey Party uniform; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the grey uniform of the Foreign Office. As the group reached the clearing, at 3:18, Hitler's personal...
...Naval, military and air forces must be completely demobilized and disarmed, with the exception of troops needed to preserve order. Except for such portions as are needed to safeguard French colonial possessions, the Fleet is to be collected in specified ports-under the assurance that Germany will not employ it for its own purposes, except for coastal surveillance and minesweeping. No Frenchman may serve against Germany in the service of other powers...
...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...