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...your issue of March 24 regarding Istan-sued in mimeograph form the next day to the 55 officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire...
...Representatives petitioned Governor W. Lee ("Pass-The-Biscuits-Pappy") O'Daniel to appoint himself for the 90-day interim before an election must be held. Pappy held his peace, and pondered. Morris Sheppard was buried. The little people of Texas, the Anti-Saloon League of America, the high command of the Army mourned him most. They knew him best...
This week the Armored Force is to establisn two new divisions: the Third at Camp Polk, La., the Fourth at Pine Camp, N.Y. Selected to command the Third was an alert, progressive officer with an old Army name: Brigadier General Alvan Cullom Gillem Jr. His Union grandfather was in command of the outfit that pursued and killed Confederate General John Hunt Morgan in 1864; his father was a cavalry colonel. His son, Alvan C. Gillem 2nd, West Point basketballer, is now an Air Corps lieutenant. Commander of the Fourth will be Brigadier General Henry W. Baird, who, like General Gillem...
...Germans struck. At 5:30 o'clock the German Minister to Athens, Viktor Prinz zu Erbach-Schönberg, presented a note to the Greek Government announcing that, because of the wicked British, it would be necessary to attack Greece. As usual the German High Command announced that Yugoslav and British troops having advanced against them, it had been necessary to "counter-attack...
...danger is that undergraduates who were pumped by Blitzkrieg im Westen will carry away with them, not a calm realization of Germany's grip on the continent, but an abstract fear of Hitler and the forces that are at his command. It is successful propaganda only if it makes us want to turn and run. It boomerangs against Hitler if it makes us realize something of the undramatic, thorough, machine-against-machine character of modern warfare. Preparation against the blitzkrieg, not a paralysis-through-fear, is the lesson we must draw from this film...