-5- American order, and complete defeat of the Allies in the present battles is the defeat of the United States. This war, however, is a war of machines and men and the United States has not enough of either to turn the tide in the present battles. It is true that he superiority of the German armies has achieved the successes up to the present, but there is something else which has contributed with cumulative effect to German military triumphs. There has been generated in Europe an intangible force of power and success on the one side and weakness and defeat on the other which is giving permanency to German gains and which is building up a resistance in the German people to the strain of the war and its sacrifice. That force can be deflected by the demonstration of another force even if the actual power is only in the making and an alignment of the Government of the United States against Hitler and his associates will constitute that force. That alignment must be immediate, it must be open and unequivocal, and it must be supported by the extension of material help which if meager in its initiation can be developed rapidly to great dimensions. It is said that the public opinion in the United States has undergone a tremendous transformation within the past weeks but is not yet ready for such a move. This impetus, however, |