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...made Cambridge's Great Breakfast Table Daily the best thing around the Yard, the CRIMSON will teach all comers how to interview queens and photograph legs in the innermost recesses of Scollay Square, how to crash plays and big-time conferences with press cards, not to mention how to destroy University Hall with a powerful stroke of the editorial...
Columnist George Fielding Eliot called for a civilized reprisal. His idea was to warn Germany by radio that one of ten named villages would be destroyed from the air, then to destroy one of the ten. He thought the trouble the Germans would have in evacuating ten villages would have a sobering effect; or, if they did not evacuate, that their own people would make trouble...
...People are asking," said the London Daily Mail, "whether we can win the war with this devastating weapon alone. . . . The war will not be won so long as the German Army is in being. We have to destroy that mighty instrument. It is possible to do it by air action. The Army could be disintegrated by smashing civilian morale, or by destroying supplies at their source...
...which last year helped to save Leningrad) and Russia plumped into the non-aggression pact with Germany. Later Britain helped Finland against Russia. Even after Hitler's attack on Russia last year, some Britons' abhorrence of Communism led them to hope that somehow Germany and Russia would destroy each other, while Russians remained equally suspicious of their capitalist ally...
Jules Verne minds figure that war planes will go higher yet, with pressure cabins and cockpits. Military men are not so sure. One explosive shell could destroy the pressure, kill the crew...