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...sort of durable peace. Unwittingly, the complete record only outlines the neutralization of one effort by the other, with American moral, physical and political unpreparedness as the result. For while Hull and the New Deal coterie of interventionists were stiffening opposition to aggression, either by promise or threat, Congress was busy hamstringing real American intervention by Neutrality Acts and refusals of any sort of joint action. Disguised as a peace precaution, isolation took firm hold on Capital Hill, preventing economic action against Japan in 1932 and '37, Italy in 1935, and Germany up until Lend-Lease. The words "Action denied...
...Threat of Priorities...
...Labor Board last week made a significant move which can well be interpreted as meaning that henceforward the Government will not tolerate secondary or boycott strikes such as from time to time have tied up the trucking industry and which can constitute a real threat to production and distribution...
...that under the tension of an air raid some people become indecently ravenous, others, like herself, irrationally sleepy. She saw a woman's panic soothed by the mere act of counting her pay. She learned how, five minutes after planes have vanished and firing has ceased, the boomerang threat of anti-aircraft shrapnel comes hissing down like rain out of new sunlight.* She saw, for the first time, the "refugee look"-faces looking so stunned that they suggested that the brain's gyroscope had been removed...
...Libya (based on Alexandria) and General Eisenhower's British and U.S. forces (whose Atlantic base is Casablanca) was like trying to bring together armies from opposite shores of the U.S. (see map), with nothing like the excellent highway and communications facilities of the U.S. Franco's threat was one more strain on Allied manpower and communications...