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...hung in the balance. A Nazi spokesman complained of U. S. "pinpricks." A warning to the U. S. came from the Rome press. The Axis, having for months ignored not only U. S. aid to Britain but the whole U. S. defense program designed to thwart its plans for world domination, had decided to try talking tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Hour of Urgency | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...letter argues that "The only method of dealing with the totalitarian powers is to act before they act and thwart them before they have nourished themselves by conquest into a condition of irresistible strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUICK ACTION IN FAR EAST IS DEMANDED BY ALUMNI GROUP | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...letter declared that we should take initiative to "thwart the gangster nations before they have nourished themselves by conquest into a condition of unprecedented and irresistible strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Professors Favor Complete Aid to China | 10/1/1940 | See Source »

...more isolated he felt; the more isolated he felt, the louder he screamed. Faith for Living is his most piercing shriek to date. The book suggests that Author Mumford has been practically overrun by Nazis already and the U. S. will get its turn in a few minutes. To thwart this fate, Author Mumford urges total moral regeneration for U. S. liberals. His program embraces three main points: 1) restoration of the family; 2) re-establishment of ties with the soil; 3) the development of personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intellectuals, Arise | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...tape of law threatened to thwart the U. S. will to help. By present immigration statutes, no alien Briton, however young or pathetic, can legally enter the U. S. without going through the slow mill of the quota, nor (by British law) take more than ?10 ($36 last week) out of the United Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Relief | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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