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Alongside the Meknès whirled a Nazi motor torpedo boat. The French captain was given five minutes to abandon ship. When he tried to signal his ship's name and nationality, the Germans cut him short with machine guns. Then came a torpedo. Down went the Meknès. Dead: 383. The Germans (and the Petain Government of France) blamed Britain for not notifying them to obtain safe passage for the Mekn...
...Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking spirochetes...
...United States desires to contribute to re-establish continuity in world commerce, it must abandon the wrong method of wanting at the same time to be both the greatest creditor nation and the greatest export country...
Among the few courses left to U. S. foreign policy, said Streit, were: to give the British up as lost, thus abandon the U. S.'s first line of defense; to give all aid short of war, or go to war (neither of which courses held any insurance that the British fleet would not be surrendered, turned against the U. S.). The U. S., said Streit, must offer Britain the hope that lay in Union Now with the U. S. Union gave the 13 colonies the courage to fight tyranny in 1776. "We face now not George...
...occupied Poland last week the Germans went into high gear with a Nazi propaganda campaign designed to persuade the Polish people to abandon all forms of passive resistance, "follow the wise example of France." Looking for a Polish Pétain, the Nazis approached the onetime Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Polish Sejm, tenacious and long-suffering Prince Janusz Radziwill. The landed, many-branched, internationally well-connected Radziwills, who trace their ancestry back to 15th-Century Ostyk Radziwill, are the Roosevelts of Poland...