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...maximum program that the U.S. can undertake is to help stricken nations until they can get their own crops planted and harvested. This help must include food to prevent starvation. But the emphasis will be on seed, fertilizer, machinery...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
Republicans, shot while napping, clutched hands to pain-stricken breasts. Cried New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "[The President] dangled before the eyes of the soldiers a gift of their own tax money. . . ." Cried Pennsylvania's Congressman J. William Ditter: "[The President's speech] degenerated into the official opening of the fourth term campaign...
...letter said nothing of the military objectives successfully bombed, mentioned only San Lorenzo. Then the Holy Father suspended audiences for several days, gave permission for the terror-stricken to spend the night in the colonnades of St. Peter...
...such meeting, a strange, fierce shout rang in the darkness. The invaders who heard the shout dropped to the ground, saw a pillbox on the skyline. The voice called again; it was no longer fierce, but high-pitched, panic-stricken...