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Total national forces assembled in massive fashion and directed against individual nations are difficult to withstand. We do not propose to adopt totalitarian principles or methods based upon them, but in order to defend ourselves successfully we must contrive our policies of counterattack. Our new democratic policies will call for administrative management of very high quality-superior personnel, superior fiscal management, superior planning, superior methods and practices-blending together the highest available skills of industrial management, military management, public administration; and summoning ability to meet emerging situations for many of which there will be found no precedents...
...burr he admitted that real credit for its appearance was due to his 73-year-old housekeeper, Mary Cordner, who for years had deplored the fact that all of his five sons but the last (12-year-old Wallace) had had books dedicated to them. B. C. could not withstand such an argument indefinitely. Besides, there was more need today for business humanizing than ever. And with B. C. Forbes Publishing Co. there to do the printing, Forbes magazine's 75,000 subscribers to send in coupons, there was an honest penny to be turned...
...President had hoped to fish for striped bass, but the cold, blustery rain continued for most of the week; there was no fishing. It was easier to withstand than the Nazi rain that was falling on London, on Coventry. Even more serious for England was the war Nazi Germany was waging at sea, hacking at the British lifeline. If England could not get the cargoes of food and material she ceaselessly needed, she might be starved into submission. No one understood that better than the man aboard the Potomac...
...life, American democracy, will come to an end. When we ask why, we are given two answers: first, if Germany is not defeated, this hemisphere and this continent will be invaded by force of arms; second, even without actual military invasion, we will be unable to withstand the overwhelming economic and ideological pressure from a victorious Third Reich...
...they wished to preserve their own culture, their way of life, were forced to take up arms and be prepared to fight. In those days many communities became alarmed too late. They did not understand the real menace of a fanatical and effective military power. Unprepared, they failed to withstand the onslaught. For the inhabitants of these conquered nations there were then three choices: death, or servitude, or conversion to the new religion, is it different on the continent of Europe at this very moment...