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...program exclusively designed for American listeners. Known as Britain Speaks, the new show, now a fortnight old, is a vast improvement over the stodgy stuff that BBC used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American...
...elect a president. Last week there seemed a possibility that this organization might never hold a world meeting. In a Europe dominated by Naziism it would have no place. This sad fact was mulled over in a pamphlet called Can Christianity Survive?, published by a group of churchmen including brisk, baldish Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, U. S. secretary of the Council. Edited by Religio-Political Journalist Stanley High, the pamphlet said nothing new about Naziism's enmity toward Christianity. But with its naked quotations from Hitler, Nazideologist Alfred Rosenberg and others, its German anti-religious cartoons, its cover drawing...
...paid glowing tribute-by the withdrawal of planes for the defense of Great Britain (see p. 27) was all too possible. Any way it was looked at, the task before Weygand was grim. All week he must have labored desperately, but the atmosphere at his headquarters was as calm, brisk, full of encouragement as it should be around a commander. Said he: "I am full of confidence if everyone does his duty with driving energy...
...Methods. In recent years General Gamelin had walked attentively, at the brisk half-trot he learned in the Chasseurs, over almost every square mile of the terrain to which Germany now brought the war. He knew minutely its potentialities for defense by war of position-the prevailing school of French Army thought ever since the Maginot Line was conceived and erected. At the war's outset he announced that he would be miserly in spending human life. His stand-and-take-it order meant that the Germans had forced him out of position and into a war of maneuver...
...Brisk British Tycoon John Richard Sofio, chairman of the board of British Home Stores (a chain of 60 cheap stores with a 1939 gross of ?15,000,000), admitted when he arrived in the U. S. that business was good, particularly in one item: because of blackouts Britons have bought millions of electric torches (flashlights...