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Those who advocate such "preparedness" feel they are being wholly objective, weighing coolly the threat of a German victory, and acting only in our best military interest. Most of them do not stop to think that by backing such a program, by crying helplessly that there is nothing else to be done, they are taking one of the most familiar and predictable steps toward war. If a historian were to draw a hypothetical picture of a nation being dragged into war, a defense program like ours and the state of mind of those who are backing it would certainly figure...
Meanwhile immobilizing troops of the Maginot Line proper by holding attacks, the Germans kept some 30 divisions poised on the Swiss border ready to strike into France through the Burgundy Gap. South of Switzerland Benito Mussolini's Army was a final threat...
...Channel. Then the R. A. F., with its bombers in Britain, would still have to keep its pursuit planes in France, to protect an ally whose Air Force is inadequate. Germany could then strike in either direction, with its opponents' Air Forces split. Against this double threat. Britain last week extended its balloon-&-steel-cable barrage, warned its populace of dangers to come, waited...
...allowed, "except for the performance of a public mission." Alert for signs of a Fifth Column, authorities posted guards at each of Paris' gates, interned all German nationals (Nazis and anti-Nazis alike) in two huge bicycle-racing arenas, prepared to apply sternly Premier Reynaud's threat that "for every weakness there will be the penalty of death...
...duty of America to stay within its own hemisphere and through a unifies country and people stand against the threat of any Nazi invasion," stated Russell A. Nixon, instructor in Economics, before a gathering in Dudley Hall yesterday...