Word: globalizations
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Only the high commands can weigh the demands of global war, the total strength in airmen and airplanes available to the U.S. and Britain, against the certainty that now is the best time to hit Germany from the air. The Allies have an opportunity they may never have again. German victory in Russia and in the Middle East may soon release Germany's main air fleets for defense of the homeland, or for assaults on the Allies' priceless air base in Britain...
...decisions of global politics and global strategy made in the Cabinet. Perhaps it is just as well. Franklin Roosevelt has never shown a disposition to surround himself with strong men in high positions. His Cabinet looked weak even in peacetime. Now, least of all, do most Americans want their war policies to be shaped by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the lady in the funny hat; or by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., who got his job via gentleman farming and publication of the American Agriculturist; or by Postmaster General Frank Walker...
...total Pan-American unity the meaning of Brazil's belligerency in World War II may still be dubious. But to a U.S. engaged in global war it was reassurance that the power of a trustworthy friend would embrace half the South American continent. In a message to President Vargas, President Roosevelt said: "I express to Your Excellency the profound emotion with which [Brazil's] courageous action has been received in this country. ... It adds power and strength, moral and material, to the armies of liberty...
...dark-haired Emperor, who earns his living teaching English, is a collateral descendant of the last reigning Inca, Atahualpa. He is the self-styled spiritual leader of 10,000,000 Indians and head of the unofficial Inca Monarchist Party. Now that white men are destroying each other in a global war, the way is being prepared for restoration of Ttahuantinsuyu ("the Four Quarters of the World") to the Indians. He himself may never see that day. But to his son, Prince Calvino Luis Felipe Huaraca Duchicela, may come his rightful heritage: dominion over all the lands between Quito, Ecuador...
Whatever Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill planned before they parted-a sanguine global strategy to win the war by Lend-Lease, a campaign to have the democracies fight a holding action until the weight of U.S. war production overwhelmed the Axis-whatever exactly they planned, one thing was certain: they had not planned the war to go as it has gone. Their reckoning did not provide for Pearl Harbor, for the fall of Singapore and The Netherlands East Indies, for a submarine blockade of the East Coast of the U.S., for the Jap moving into...