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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...
Fannies. Affiliated with the WATS are several thousand ambulance driving "Fannies" (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), an old outfit founded in 1909, motorized in 1916, never disbanded. Their chief is the Countess of Athlone and some of their present ambulances are converted Harrod's delivery vans...
...plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...
...would be necessary to know positively that the Nazis were sincere in their proposals. On the face, Hitler's speech reeks of a thousand old assurances and a thousand old lies. Yet this time his desire for peace may be real enough, even if his appetite is not appeased enough, that he will give Mr. Roosevelt definite guaranties of his good faith. He has never before offered to disarm...