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...footnote to the clamor over the complacency of the American public . . . write the results of a recent Gallup poll into the record. We smug smarties, it seems, have enough gumption to favor total mobilization of both man and woman power for vital production needs. We slothful citizens are ready to sacrifice nonessential jobs, move to other cities, devote evenings and any spare time to the common cause...
...George Gallup put together his polls, added a fervent "Amen." He wrote that two-thirds of all full-time employed Americans would be willing to have 10% deducted each payday to buy defense bonds or stamps; that six months before Pearl Harbor a substantial majority was willing to pay two weeks' salary to the Government in addition to all taxes; that 64% of all U.S. workers were willing to accept the Government's right to dictate to them the kind of work, number of hours worked and amount...
Offense v. Defense. Nearly the whole of Britain sided with the Left in its clamor for more action. The latest Gallup Poll showed that 67% of the people believed Britain's "chances will be better this year by developing an offensive warfare," while only 10% voted to remain on the defensive. (The rest did not know...
...already busy at war, in uniforms and in the confused civilian beehives of Washington, there had been a conviction that the nation had not yet waked up, that even now people did not understand what the war was going to do to their homes, their businesses. But a Gallup poll indicated that the people's eyes were open: 71% were in favor of the most drastic invasion of U.S. family life yet-drafting men with dependents into military service. Other signs of the transition...
Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...