National Affairs: PLAIN WORDS

For the U.S. and its allies, it was a time for laying it on the line, in plain words:

Rhys M. Sale, president of Ford Motor Co. of Canada: "I want to see the people of Canada wide awake to the fact [that] we are living in a tinder-dry world in which a gigantic fire is raging and dangerously near to being out of control. . . In the arsenals of every land behind the Iron Curtain, the sweating slaves of Communism are beating out the weapons for world conquest . . . World War III is here. It is going...

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