"Though the "battle for London" fills the headlines of the newspapers, the electoral *attle of. Willkie and Roosevelt occupies a considerable amount of attention so far as the man in the street is concerned. earnest discussion in the corner of the resstaurant or in the smoking room of the Pull-with the possibilities of British victory. It that the vital seriousness of the present. phases of the war are ignored, in fact, there probably now a greater realization than ver before of the very immediate stake which America has in Great Britain's powers of continued resistance. Talk of the elections forms a welcome relief from talk of the war. "The elections are, in other words, fulfilling of an "escape literature."
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