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...destruction by which the enemies of freedom hope to overthrow liberty in this, the greatest of the nations that freedom has created. . . . The United States is in as great peril today as was France a year ago. And I believe that unless we act now, decisively, to meet the threat we shall be too late...
...only two weeks of fighting against Italy's mechanized invasion. To Italy went 344,700 new subjects in 68,000 square miles of new territory which, while far from rich or productive, rounded out her total hold on Africa's northeast shoulder, rid her of a rear threat to further operations against the British in Egypt, Suez, Palestine, the Sudan and Kenya. Also to Italy went the first tangible victory in her war with Britain and a chance for Fascists to crow over a "Little Dunkirk...
Then the German Army ripped through France. The Germans lined the road on the French side of the Hendaye bridge with tanks and motorized equipment to a depth of a mile and a half. This implied threat and, even more, the influence of his strongman brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, led Franco to change his mind...
...invasion of Great Britain was to threaten repeatedly that all British civilians who might attempt to injure German soldiers would be regarded as francs-tireurs (guerrilla fighters) and treated accordingly (put to death). Last week the British Government broadcast, in German, its considered reply to Germany's threat. It said...
...faced with a choice of less butter or guns, chose butter. The issue was survival. Last week Germany in victory, Britain in jeopardy each gauged the consequences of its choice. Last week the U. S., nursing a seedling realism, also appraised those consequences in terms of the first serious threat to its continental security since the Trent Affair in 1861. Above all, Americans wanted to know how & why Britons had made the mistakes they made...