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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...contribution, their tributes differed in degree but not in kind: few diplomats in U. S. history have accomplished so much in so brief and difficult a period. Yet their tributes gave no indication that before Lord Lothian's brief U. S. career there had been a long ordeal of frustrations and setbacks that nothing in his manner suggested...
...results eventually in any appreciable volume, Mr. Morgenthau must be empowered to stop the granting of tax exemptions on long-term bonds. To make that step he must ask Congress for a new law. To tax State and municipal securities, that law must be broad enough to invade States' rights. Inevitably it will be contested in the courts. His other alternative: to get a new Constitutional amendment, which no one expected would ever be ratified by the States...
...madhouse sound & fury, a U. S. Navy carrier is an outstanding example of the smooth coordination of man and complicated machine. It is also a powerful weapon for long-range reconnaissance, for delivery of swift and crushing raids from the air, like the British attack on the Italian Navy at Taranto. Big trouble is that the U. S. Navy has not nearly enough carriers (Britain has seven, Japan eleven). Last week the Navy launched its seventh. Down a greasy way of the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. slid the 20,000-ton Hornet, to be tied...
...oppression as a method of combating that oppression. Apart from that attempted justification, it was a plausible argument himself once again as a good New Dealer." But Hitler's declaration that Germany was capable of beating the world was something else. Every middle-aged citizen of Germany remembers the long grim war and final defeat which occurred the last time Germany took on the world...
...think that even now we realize the true nature of National Socialism. The triumph of Hitler no doubt grew out of the despair which settled on Central Europe in the long years of war, defeat, inflation, revolutionary propaganda. That was what gave Hitler his chance. But modern National Socialism is the reassertion of the .strongest tradition in German and Prussian history-the belief in the all-powerful military state, creating order and discipline at home by ruthless Gestapo methods and expanding its wealth and power by ruthless conquest abroad. We have almost lost the capacity to understand that...