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...units are set up for the 7,500,000 men expected in the Army by spring, the radius of the dry area will be practically nation-wide. Congressional support should be comfortably abundant since Congress can well use a palliative for anxious mothers. The timing, the phrasing, and the scope of this amendment shows that its proponents have lost none of their parliamentary skill and knack for careful planning...
...time"?none of these factors has materially altered the plan or the basic elements which originally determined its shape and timing, The attack on the outer Aleutians, the Battle of Midway and other events since last December have caused shifts in detail, not in the overall scope and direction of the plan...
...about where and when we shall open a second front,' then I can only say: 'Mr. Churchill, you have never yet caused me to fear. But regarding the fact that we must worry and think, you are right.' Because if I had an opponent of adequate scope-of real military size-then I could actually calculate approximately where he would attack. But if one has before one military idiots, in such a case one cannot even guess where they will attack...
...wide and firm that stand can already be was indicated by the scope of the projects discussed at the Council's first meeting. Among them: rural reconstruction, the home and family life, chaplaincies among munition workers, youth, prisoners of war, the position of churches on the Continent, post-war reconstruction of Europe and the Far East...
...though intact, may have been so weakened by its colossal expenditures on the southern steppes that it could not muster the men and materials necessary for a future offensive from positions beyond the Volga or even farther back toward the Urals. Russian offensives this year have been limited in scope and results. Nowhere have the Russians exhibited much offensive power, and from beyond the Volga their task would be even more monumental. Russia is losing not only its great industrial and agricultural resources in the south; it is losing at least 40 million of its 180 million people. The wellsprings...