National Affairs: Last Call

Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told newsmen that the U.S. had information of a new plan of German aggression: against the remaining independent nations in Europe. Newsmen went to the maps and counted the neutral, independent European nations. Only five seemed even semi-independent: Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey. Once there were 26 independents.

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