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Strength & Possibilities. According to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, the U. S., in order to wage an offensive war against Japan in the far Pacific, would have to double its projected fleet, spend a huge sum (perhaps $8,000,000,000) beyond what is now planned for the Navy...
...Navy would certainly have to be doubled to risk simultaneous war in both the Atlantic and the Pacific (without the aid of the imperiled British Fleet). The President this week proposed to build 84 aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines for Atlantic service. Eventual cost...
...hundreds of German officers and troops were reported moving into Italy as mentors for the Italian Army. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder appeared there to advise the Italian Fleet. Large numbers of Italian officers & men were reported moving into Germany through the Brenner Pass, to make the Axis effort look more joint...
Dick Harlow will not be confronted with the major reconstruction job that was his a year ago, but graduation will take an average toll from the Harvard football camp. Fleet Torble Macdonald will no longer grace the Soldiers Field gridiron, and scholar-athlete Tom Healey leaves a gaping hole at right tackle. Mose Hallett, another tackle veteran, graduates, making that position Coach Harlow's number one problem area. In addition to those three men, Jim Devine, Bart Kelley, Ernie Sargeant, George Downing, Bill Coleman, and Frazier Curtis will be among the missing when football season rolls around again...
...means to found Fascism in this country. Above all, we must not desert Britain and her Empire because they are today our first line of defense. Britain will now be fighting at terrific odds; she may crack beneath the strain just as France has done, but the British fleet must be saved from Hitler or we will find ourselves pawning our democracy in order to build a two ocean navy. Britain is today a very weak first line of defense. We must strengthen it immediately with supplies, planes, ships, and, if necessary, men. If Britain falls we must fight...