can move our armies to the various theatres where Hitler and
      his confederate Mussolini must be met, and maintain them there
      and do all this with the assurance of being able to carry it
      on till the spirit of the continental dictators is broken, we
      by the way and the time needed by the United States to complete
      her defensive preparations may not the forthcoming. It is therefore
      in shipping and in to transport across the oceans, particularly
      Atlantic Ocean, that in 1941 the crunch of the be found. If on
      the other hand we are able to move the necessary tonnage to and
      from the salt water indefinitely, It may well be that the application
      of superior air power to the German homeland and the rising anger
      of the German gripped populations will bring the agony of civilization
      to a merciful and glorious end. But do not let us undertake the
      task.
 
 
 
 
Out shipping losses, the figure for which in recent months
      are appended, have been on a scale ____ comparable to that of
      the worst years of the first war. In the 5 weeks ending November
      3rd the
 
 
 
 
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