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Last week Axis planes raided Cairo, cultural center of the Moslem world. This act brought Great Britain face to face with a crucial decision: to bomb Rome or not to bomb Rome...
...British had to choose between two evils. If they gave the Egyptians their tooth for a tooth and bombed Rome, they might precipitate mass raids on panicky Cairo. If they did not bomb Rome, they might keep Cairo running smoothly as center of their Middle Eastern campaigns but British prestige would suffer a further dip in Islam's eyes...
...Chinese in occupied China last week celebrated Jo Ee Ba in the fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
...When the Germans started the blitz in London," reported Correspondent Cole, "a bomb went through the roof and hit Mrs. Papafio (of Indian descent) as the family sat in their tiny suburban villa. When Big Papafio went to the rescue, his wife was stiff dead. And what was worse, some gas went into Big Papafio's eyes and made him blind...
...Martin-in-the-Fields was one of London's first blitzed churches. A bomb penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...