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Sirs: The following is a quotation in a letter written to Colonel E. M. House by Brand Whitlock, then Minister and later Ambassador to Belgium. The letter was written from Havre and dated Sept. 19, 1917: "... I have opportunities to talk with a great many military men, Belgian, English, French and they all unite on this: if America can send over preponderating squadrons of aircraft, the scales of battle will be quickly turned. ... I do not pretend to know anything about the art or science of war, if it is either, but I think I know something about the German...
...From Allan Nevins' Letters and Journal of Brand Whitlock (Appleton-Century...
...President, prodded by OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes, last week acted swiftly to quell the uprising. To WLB, virtually toothless for 21 months, he handed a shiny, brand-new set of store teeth. Gazing at their new dentures in the mirror, WLB members clicked them contentedly, seemed to think them a perfect...
With this, his own brand of diplomacy, Eaker broke down British reserve, made of his R.A.F. colleagues not only willing allies but firm friends. British skepticism of U.S. daylight-bombing theories was overcome. Day or night bombing long ago ceased to be an issue between the U.S. and British air leaders-in Eaker's own words: "There is no conflict between day bombing and night bombing, each being part of a completed pattern and supplementing the whole...
...that he is, he's right. Look at the state of Harvard today. Babies in the Yard can be born, or even clotheslines, after all, e'est laguerre. But ask a Freshman what "Reiu hardt" means, and he'll probably tell you (and after does) that it's a brand of ale. Ask him to sing "Harvardiana," or even "Fair Harvard," and he mumbles about "a physics lab" and his eyes dart around, for all the world like a cornered ferret's, as he tries to sneak past you. Does anyone know who John the Orangeman was, or Max Keezer...