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...sadder than Vichy's eclipse in the Levant might have been the fate of all British Middle East defense had not Syria been taken. Beginning with the Iraq revolt last spring when they used Syrian bases to fly aid to Rashid Ali El-Gailani, the Germans had increasingly filtered into the country. If the Axis had got control of Syria the British Middle East Command might as well have folded its tents and gone home...
...This is the day of America. Fate itself wished to make a symbol of it, even in the calendar...
...Chiang Kai-shek in the past. But much of it has come via leftist pipelines. Typical are books like Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (TIME, Jan. 10, 1938) ; Agnes Smedley's China's Red Army Marches; Andpe Malraux's Man's Fate, in which Chiang's officers are shown parboiling live Communists in a locomotive boiler. Some of these writers have suggested that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping the Japanese at bay, while other writers have shown...
...declare the French government has ordered me to sign these terms of armistice. I desire to read a personal declaration. Forced by the fate of arms to cease the struggle in which we were engaged on the side of the Allies, France sees imposed on her very hard conditions. France has the right to expect in the future negotiations that Germany show a spirit which will permit the great neighboring countries to live and work peacefully.' Then I heard a scratching of pens...
...last section of Shirer's book has the smothered, nightmare quality of a man held prisoner by an enemy who will tell him nothing about what he wants most desperately to know-the fate of England. British air raids exhilarated him as they did the Belgians who "kept hoping the British bombers would come over. They did not seem to mind if the British bumped them off if only the R.A.F. got the Germans...