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...ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...battle let up-for British tea. One man from each battle station went to the galleys, returned with steaming pots and cups. A.P.'s Grover noted: "It is hard for Americans to understand . . . but a Briton with a spot of tea under his belt is a better fighting...
...picked a good libretto, but no easy theme for an opera. Kipling's fable relates (in the famed Briton's most roll-down-to-Rio prose) how King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon...
...many feel that the Viceroy has done as well as any rational, cautious Briton might be expected to do in terrible, irrational times. Beyond doubt, he reflects the attitude of most of his colleagues and superiors in London. The great question is whether, in Indian policy, the times call for less rationality and more risk...
...Atlantic in 1940; the receivers of Bundles for Britain, thought Americans the most generous people in the world. Little U.S. influences were all over England: movies, the tune The White Cliffs of Dover, most popular song in England; even Chicago pinball machines in London's penny arcades. The Briton-in-the-street, from constantly gazing at the menus of Hollywood, believed Americans the most fabulous doers and makers of all time. He would always prefer his Britain, just as it was; but some day he would like to see America for himself...