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...title last year-Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), Major John Jacob Astor (the Times'), Lord Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more for the prestige of British news abroad, which Reuters had done much to build...
...much the Germans could say; no more. It takes one to start a fight, but it takes two to make an end of fighting. There was no apparent disposition in Moscow last week to call a halt. Said Soviet Spokesman Solomon ' A. Lozovsky: "The possibility of destroying the Soviet Union is absurd. We are confident of success because it is impossible to destroy the U.S.S.R., Britain and the United States. The Germans are dizzy with temporary successes. No single battle can finish this war. We . . . have no doubt as to the ultimate outcome...
...many of them had more than half hoped he would be. They forgot that their rising optimism throughout the summer had been caused in part by Hitler's failure to realize their expectations, in part by their foolish hope that Germany and Russia would do the impossible and destroy each other. They forgot that Moscow was not all of Russia...
...rays can be imagined as streams of infinitesimal sub-atomic particles. They are similar to radium rays and they work in exactly the same way to destroy living cells. They are created when a powerful electric current-i.e., a stream of electrons -jumps through a vacuum tube and hits a "target,", usually a piece of tungsten. The electrons batter from the tungsten a secondary stream of chargeless particles, X-rays, whose wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of ultraviolet light and almost as short as those of radium's gamma rays. The shorter waves...
Most important gentleman friend was probably German-American Dr. Walter T. Scheele, president of New Jersey Agricultural Chemical Co. He showed young Attaché von Papen how to destroy ships at sea by means of incendiaries made out of a short piece of two-inch lead pipe. These were manufactured aboard the S.S. Friedrich der Grosse (then lying off Hoboken), smuggled aboard freighters by German agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth...