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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,