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There can be little doubt that the exigencies of the present armament program and the current emphasis upon unity in the common effort have strengthened the hand of Mr. Dies in his bid for a renewed subscription. No one questions the threat or even the actual existence, of a certain degree of attempted sabotage directed at the defense program. The country needs a watchdog to guard against such criminal activity. But everyone knows that a good watchdog is not an inexperienced loud-mouthed puppy that scents a burglar in every bush and snaps at every stranger. The Dies Committee...
...them were the Army and the carabineros (civil guards), without whose support no Chilean revolt could get out of the shouting stage. During the 1938 campaign, which won Aguirre the Presidency, a fascist revolt was viciously suppressed by the carabineros, protecting the outgoing Rightist Government. Last year the mere threat of their guns kept another plot from turning into a revolt against the Popular Front. As long as Don Tinto could keep them in his camp he had little to fear; if he loses them, America's first may become the world's last Popular Front...
...similar organizations, for in accordance with the decision, future tutoring, based on class-lecture and text notes, would be held by the courts as a violation of the copyright laws. of the last power that stands between us and complete isolation in a fascist world. The more threat imposed by such a world can check the hopes of liberal democracy: could even destroy it as effectively as war itself...
...long as Britain holds out, Japan does not dare attempt much. . . . Constantly increasing material aid to Britain is the No. 1 route whereby Japan's threat to America can be rendered null and void...
...speaking tonight as a private citizen of this republic a private citizen deeply concerned with the present foreign threat to our nation's future. I am one of those who believe that our free way of life can be secured only by a defeat of the Axis powers. The opinion is growing among qualified judges that such a defeat is possible only if the American people without reservation will pledge the country's resources to that end. Are we willing to go so far? This is the fundamental question which must be now debated...