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...Having set an original pattern of military overseas policy in French North Africa, the U.S. had explanations to make and judgments to justify to its British ally. A solution to the North African political and military obscurities has to be worked out, and the lines of a policy broader than the military expediency of the Darlan deal laid down. It will have to be an American solution since Americans are calling the turn in that area, and it calls for far greater thought and vision than the immediate and very practical problem of rationing U.S. food in North Africa...
...other days, a skeptical world might have doubted that the Russians had indeed blasted the German grip on Leningrad. Now a pattern of Russian authenticity had become familiar. In recent weeks, Germany's admissions of pivotal losses have been delayed but nonetheless complete...
...liberal arts, we are told, are luxuries. At best you should fit them into your leisure time. They are mere decorations upon the sterner pattern of life. . . . Men and women who are devoting their lives to such studies should not be made to feel inferior or apologetic in the face of a PT boat commander or the driver of a tank. They and all their fellow citizens should know that the preservation of our cultural heritage is not superfluous in a modern civilization. ... It is what we are fighting...
...more & more to ersatz fabrics. Perfumes and toilet goods will be cut by war demands for alcohol. Notions, blouses, handbags will be difficult to obtain. Draperies, rugs and carpets are already so tight that one West Coast retailer placed an order for 1,000 rugs of any color, any pattern and any size provided they could be retailed for less than $100 in the 9-by-12 size...
...crawl westward along the roads. In the interior mountains they build underground factories, train troops, organize men, women & children to defend their nation. When at length Japan attacks the U.S., U.S. officers go to China to learn from experts how to fight Japs. In China they find "the very pattern of a modern fighting state...