The nation's war muscles toughened and grew. Surely and steadily, despite hindrances, bogglings, misunderstandingsdespite the fact that the nation, even now, had no idea of its own strength.
Once a pampered U.S. had almost believed Hitler: that the democracies were soft, flabby, ineffectual. The poisoned idea had not yet been wholly proved a lie.
When Hitler's war machine crushed France in ten bone-shattering days, the U.S. looked at its own little Army, nervously debated Lend-Lease. Now a leaner U.S. had its own war machine. Hitler's juggernaut, poised for spring, would soon be only the second greatest. Guarded U.S. estimates...
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