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...exception to this vast, good-natured conformity was the tiny minority of religiously-minded conscientious objectors. Alert to the implications of the Selective Training and Service Act, as a result of their own experiences in World War I, and of British brethren in World War II, one small group has been meeting weekly in Manhattan since mid-July, to coach their fellows. This week the War Resisters League (over 17,000 strong), headed by hulking, 6 ft. 4 Evan W. Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed...
...most serious suspicion growing in British minds was that invasion might be off for the present. The very fact of this increasing relaxation of expectancy led Winston Churchill and his colleagues to be more on the alert than ever. If by letting the equinox go past, Hitler was just confusing the British, the guard must stay up. If by letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared...
Miss Grant and the other shorts are part of the Ministry's new campaign to keep beleaguered Britons alert to the dangers of invasion. This astonishing show of initiative was staged in spite of the wheezy Ministry. It was due to two enterprising men who bored from within: long, lean, vigorous Sidney L. Bernstein, boss of a chain of 35 Granada theatres, and imaginative Jack Beddington, former Shell Oil publicity man who vitalized British poster and advertising methods by hiring top-notch artists to paint Shell...
...been powerfully reinforced. Three new battleships (King George V, Prince of Wales, Jellicoe) had recently gone into the western Mediterranean, and the Repulse into the eastern. It appeared last week that some of the ships based on Gibraltar had joined the eastern squadron. All went out with lookouts alert-hunting for the will-o'-the-wisp Italian Fleet...
...quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever he went...