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...Polish newspapers of New England are fully aware of the threat of Hitler to this country and are in accord with all measures taken to combat it, according to a survey of the foreign language newspapers of New England, undertaken by American Defense, Harvard Group...
Philosophy A and at least five additional courses are prerequisite to any attempts to wage intellectual combat with Mr. Russell on his home field of mathematical logic. His calm, waiting stare is enough to topple the confidence of the crassest bluffer that ever fooled a section...
...night, for 96 tense hours, Lieut. Davies and his squad burrowed. No excitement of active combat, no military ends, no instinct to destroy the enemy urged them as they grubbed 27 feet into the wet, sandy soil. They were in constant expectation of a blinding, icy flash of death. As they dug, a gas main caught fire and began to broil the bomb. Twice on the way up the bomb slipped its tackles and fell to the bottom of the hole...
...Battle of Britain should turn adversely for the Axis, or if it should become a long-drawn-out affair of bombings and blockade, the Southern Theatre might well be the deciding area of combat. Like wolves and dogs which instinctively spring for adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight...
...machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks, two mopping-up units, support from the Air Force, using mostly Breda combat bombers, and from reserves, bringing total strength to about 250,000. This well-balanced striking force drove first for Salûm, five miles across the border...