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...area that the R.A.F. could bomb spread vast across the face of Europe (see map). Because it was so big the pattern of bombing could be infinitely varied...
Along the cathedral-country route once traveled by Fritz Baedeker, a new band of German tourists swarmed last week -with even less respect for British architectural treasures. Over York, Exeter, Norwich on successive nights Göring's Luftwaffe toured, dumping bomb cargo after vindictive bomb cargo on the startled cathedral towns. Another night they visited Bath, left that venerable watering place looking like a piece of old lace, ripped and soiled, but still worn with dignity...
Doriot's claim, as Vichy had tried in farcical vain to prove at the discontinued Riom war-guilt trial, was that France-far from having been sabotaged by stupid militarists and demagogues of his own changeable colorations -had been "be trayed" by democratic leaders. A bomb tossed at him on April 20 had missed its mark. Frenchmen read into his Bayonne speech not only The Great's reply to the bombing but a new bid for power...
...morning after her arrival Jacoby got a cable transferring him to Manila. He proposed from rickshaw to rickshaw as they jogged over bomb-pitted streets to attend a missionary's reception. To her rickshaw drawn by a straining coolie he shouted: "Say, will you marry me?" Pretty dark-eyed Annalee, craning backward, shouted: "What did you say?" Repeated Jacoby: "I said, will you marry me?" No answer. At the reception, between introductions, he pressed for an answer. He got it after Annalee said "How do you do" to the fifth missionary. "Yes," she said...
...Temple's pilgrimage to bomb-pocked Canterbury technically started from York, whose Archbishop he has been since 1928. But longtime Church Times Editor Sidney Dark (TIME, Oct. 27) said last week: "He goes to Canterbury not so much from York as from Malvern. He is entirely committed to the Malvern program [TIME, Jan. 20, 1941] and is too big a man to go back on it." William Temple is a determined man, with his mind made up to give the country a powerful democratic and leftist lead, in sharp contrast to the conservatism of his predecessors...