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...movement to reassert democratic principles became apparent. Once a revolutionary idea of the first order, democracy, reasoned a small group of thoughtful Britons like Basil Kingsley Martin and Cyril Connolly, was a latent force which, if it could be revived in Germany, Italy, Poland and France, would offer the easiest way of crushing Naziism...
Meantime the main waves of Germany's attack rose higher between Noyon on the Oise River and Soissons on the Aisne. The Oise valley was Hitler's broadest, easiest approach to Paris. To command it fully his forces had to storm the high bridge called Chemin des Dames-just north of the Oise-Aisne Canal, and then win a foothold on the Aisne's south bank, to converge on Compiegne and the scene of the 1918 Armistice's signing. This they accomplished by the battle's fifth evening, with appalling loss of life...
...looked back and waved. The car turned the corner, and Franklin Roosevelt put aside the grim vision of 1918, faced the grim vision of 1940. The first responsibility of grim 1940 was preparedness against another war. For the leader of the richest nation on earth the easiest part of preparedness was money for that he went to Congress. Not so easy was the job of turning money into war material. That last week was his gravest unsolved problem for that he needed men who, like the War Industries Board of 1917-18, could get results. Most of all he needed...
First victims of Japan's invasion in the summer of 1937 were China's universities. Concentrated along the coast, in Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai, Nanking, Hong Kong, Canton, they were at once Japan's most dangerous foes and easiest targets. Japanese bombs completely destroyed Nankai University in Tientsin; not a book or piece of equipment was saved. Japanese soldiers looted National Peking University, sold its furniture for cigaret money. At Tsing Hua University, in Peking, Japanese smashed laboratories to bits, converted the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Gymnasium into a stable, the John Hay Memorial Library into a hospital...
...Easiest short-term remedy for coal's ills is enforced price-fixing. But last week, as the Interior Department's Bituminous Coal Division was readying its first schedule of minimum prices, Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson had to go before the U. S. Supreme Court to defend the act on which they were based. Its attacker: Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co., which 1) objected to classification of its "Arkansas anthracite" as soft coal, 2) argued that in any event the Bituminous Coal Act was an illegal delegation by Congress of its legislative power...