"Every week sees America better prepared. Basic industries which had been running at sixty per cent. 10 seventy per cent, during several years are rapidly" stepping up to hhinety per cent. or nearly one bund Fed per cent. of their capacity. The Sock market is surprisingly steady and steadily rises, giving no more than slight dip towards any seem ingly dramatic new international development, Events in other nations and combinations of other nations Seem now {9 have been discounted Well in advance. Financially as well as politically and in the popular mind America knows the direction in which Is going, and what would normally be disturbing events "among lier nations are now fundamentally incidental to the course of American procedure. has passed the period of mere writ ten appeals to treaties and. international conferences. She has returned to the altitudes of Woodrow Wilson as the war president and 'Theodore Roosevelt, who believed In speaking, softly but carrying a bug stick.' The change in America during the last six, months ig amazing. jericans ave a habit of "muckraking? The stouths of newspapers: and magazines and of political partians have widely advertised recent American deficiencies "until. leaders other nations who misjudged American psychology and American resources have underestimated Amer lean spirit and strength, Such isa weakness and yet a power in the American democracy. Tt takes time, to arouse and enlist a democracy. But America is aroused today and being rapidly enlisted. travels during the last fow months have taken me not only (wice across the American continent but widely and often through some the strongest states nf the American union. IT have made ita constant practice personally to sound the opinions and attitude of people in all classes. There is no question but that American concern and deter mination toward world-wide war I sues have become u sweeping tide.
"pillions of dollars have been pro vided for American rearmament.
Congress promptly supplies most anythfhg the government asks. beeauise the government seems to have Such vital information about. inter= national dangers and possible changes Voth ju Europe and Asia that leadors in the Senate and the House of Representatives are convinced of the urkeney. But he most significant Preparation ix the vast change in American sentiment end American thought about war issues, "he election of either Mtr. Willkie
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