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French cafe prophets were able to explain all this to their own satisfaction in terms of the Right parties and the tycoons who control them. Germany's Army is too strong for what the French call a "preventive war" to be effective. Therefore France must temporize with Germany until her Army and alliances are built...
...biologist in the making was doing penance one Saturday morning for his sins of omission. He was laboriously copying a vast chart, spread over two or three large tables, that was designed to explain to Anti-Clerics the Evolution of animal life, from the little Protozoa to the lower Chordates (a large group ranging all the way from she-flirts to sea-squirts). All of a sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then...
...electric live wire. Death to the touch! Truck drivers must learn to keep to the right of the road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce...
Last week the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its first decision on the Securities Act of 1934. The case originated last year after J. Edward Jones, dealer in oil royalties, filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Summoned to explain his facts & figures, Royalist Jones suddenly changed his mind, tried to withdraw the statement. This SEC forbade him to do (TIME, July...
...TIME TO DANCE-C. Day Lewis- Random House ($1.75). A stout attempt to explain that the new poetry movement in England is not Communistic but individualistically Socialist, with some poems by Author Day Lewis as examples...