A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Klein Maury

Author:Klein, Maury [Klein, Maury]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Mixed Signals

We have no other dependable source of leadership except in Roosevelt and some of the men around him. That is a terrible thing to say about a democracy but I believe it to be true . . . The Republican party? What a pitiful thing it is. What has it offered us during the last nine years except stupidity, five-cent criticism, and complete misunderstanding of our main problems, domestic and foreign?

—Raymond Clapper1

A single year could change our food position from abundance to scarcity.

—Claude Wickard2

Once the planning is done, once you get the production rolling—then it’s only a matter of constant operational headaches, design changes, and the like. That’s where we are today. We’re past the beginning . . . It means only one thing: that from now on our war needs are limited only by materials and manpower.

—Newsweek3

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