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...answer is: No, it will not have been enough. If England goes down, there will, of course, be nothing but British graves to reproach me. But if she doesn't go down and rises, staggered and decimated, from out her bomb-craters and bloodbath, then there will be English men and women and children to face me. Shall I be able to face them? Again the answer...
Wearing tin hats and carrying gas masks, interviewers for Dr. George Gallup's British Institute of Public Opinion lately went among the bomb-battered British people asking: "In view of the indiscriminate bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R. A. F. adopted a similar policy . . .?" The long-suffering British people divided 46% for, 46% against, 8% undecided, on giving the German people their own Luftwaffe's frightful medicine. But that was several days ago. Something happened last week in Coventry which probably changed the score...
...from proving noncontroversial, the Lubin remarks set off a bomb. The bomber: John L. Lewis' general counsel and right-hand man, onetime Wall Street law cub, later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across the banquet table at middle-of-the-roader Lubin, Pressman told the New Deal (and, incidentally, John Lewis' recent allies further to the right) what to expect. His warning: that workers will not base their wage demands on the cost of living only; what they want is a share...
...night last week dozens of British warplanes droned over Switzerland on their way to bomb northern Italy. Antiaircraft batteries opened fire and the Swiss High Command claimed to have dispersed one squadron. Next day the Government made a second energetic, but futile, protest to London. The High Command took more effective action, ordered the entire country blacked out from 10 o'clock every night until dawn. The Swiss explained that instead of compelling respect for their neutrality, normal lighting had guided pilots on their...
...plant on three shifts. Because Rustless sells only ingots, billets, slabs, bars, rods and wire, does no fabricating, "Tut" is not sure what percent of his sales go into defense. But stainless steel is used for turbine blades in warships, for the barrels of Garand rifles; in bomb sights, landing gear, machine-gun mounts, control equipment and other aircraft parts...