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...reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully equipped to resist Blitzkrieg...
...everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes and lunch-wagons, in movies, theaters and stadiums, over the radio all day and all night, they were exhorted, begged and bewitched into buying war bonds...
Impulse. Over Camp Elliott, Calif., Lieut. William F. Schroeder, Navy medical officer, watched ten paratroopers leap from a low-flying plane, could not resist the urge to jump too. He was transferred to paratroop service...
...told off the Japanese: "Our offer to let the Allies retain troops in India," he explained in a manifesto, "is to prevent you from being misled into feeling that you have but to step into this country. If you cherish any such idea, we will not fail to resist you with all the might we can muster." But in the next breath he was threatening that "hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India...
...number of sponsors can't resist tying in their product with the war effort...