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From Bratislava: "I have seldom heard so much truth about the fate of the Jews as in your broadcast ... we never hear such manly words about humanity here...
...loss of no other city or area could be as ruinous to the Spanish Republic's fate as Barcelona's. Spain's most important seaport, its industrial mainspring, its metropolis, Barcelona in Rebel hands would probably lead directly to the conquest of the rest of Loyalist Catalonia, a wiping out of the Madrid-Valencia area, the ultimate victory of Fascism in Spain...
...guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
...meet, 38 to 37, in a thrilling series of heart-breaking climaxes that left Crimson spectators almost as spent as the competitors. Every event except the 220, won by Eric Cutler with Frannie Powers at his heels, and the 400 relay which was won by Harvard after the fate of the meet had been decided, ended up with a nerveracking finish. The sad part of it all was that in most of the last lap surges Crimson tankmen were bettered...
...himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load, but if you could contrive a crash for it the alleviation of human trouble would be disproportionately...