of Christian civilization.… If we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.” Americans, generally, seemed to feel that way also, and a Gallup poll showed seventy-one percent of them in favor of giving Britain some sort of support. There was a growing feeling, too, that the United States had better get prepared to defend itself, and defense was expensive. Accordingly, it was hard to see how Congress now could be expected to give any support, however small, to something as relatively insignificant as the carving of a mountaintop out in
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