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...time works against us in the laboratories, where science is beating out some wonderful refinements on military arts which we thought were pretty well advanced a year ago. Now is the time to sense the danger, to leap to "the crystal walls," and to defend them with intelligence and fervor...
...Double Game. With exemplary skill, Communist propagandists in Austria played on every Austrian fear and vexation, made the most of every Allied slip. The Communist press rang with patriotic fervor and anti-Gruber denunciations over the Tyrol question. No mention was made of the fact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov had consistently opposed Austria's demands for South Tyrol...
...nearly two thousand years, since the Romans first drove them into exile, Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. It was a new feeling of nationhood among a people united partly by religion (though among them were atheists), partly by race (though many bore no blood relation to the biblical tribesmen who were their "ancestors"), partly by tradition (though they included extreme...
Todd's fervor has joined Communists and Nationalists in an incredible alliance against the river. At the Kaifeng gap the two factions worked peaceably within a few miles of each other. In Communist-infested Shantung local leaders promised to mend 400 miles on each river bank and to resettle half a million people now living in the proposed river bed-a painfully arduous job of dismantling and moving 1,400 villages house-by-house. The Nationalists, for their part, agreed to pay coolies in the Communist area $1,000 a day from the Nanking treasury...
...schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary: $17,500). He has bitterly fought his brotherhood's conservatives as well as the railroads' bosses. In 1928, after...