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...dawn one morning last week, bronzed, begoggled Ab Jenkins, 50-year-old mayor of Salt Lake City, strapped a crash helmet under his grease-smeared jowls, stepped into his airplane-motored speed car, set out on his favorite tour: around a 12½-mile circle on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats...
With no time to spare, Hero Bristowe and crew reached and repassed the barrage net, which luckily enmeshed their pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain...
Throughout the Reich other Nazi bigwigs celebrated. Prophet Alfred Rosenberg heralded the dawn of the "new social age." And Party Organizing Director Dr. Robert Ley was already turning out little Führers - that long-dreamed-of elite which Adolf Hitler expects to run (and enjoy the first fruits of) the Government and commerce of his part of the world, if and when the Nazis are able to change their war economy into just plain economy...
...Dining Car. In this same car, in this same spot, in the bleak November dawn of another Friday 22 years ago tough old Marshal Foch received the German delegation with these words: "Qu'est-ce que vous désirez, messieurs?" ("What do you want, gentlemen?") Said the chief of the German Delegation, Mathias Erzberger:* "We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers for an armistice." Foch (sharply): "I have no proposal whatsoever to make." Count Alfred von Oberndorff: "Tell us, Herr Feldmarschall, how you wish us to express ourselves. Our delegation is prepared...
Structurally it resembles Thornton Wilder's Bridge of San Luis Rey, opening with a scene at the border of Egypt and Palestine. At dawn British guards see a grey bus racing wildly over the desert...