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...Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who made a stirring speech in which he invoked the shades of Drake and Raleigh, praised the action as "a flash of light and color" in an otherwise drab war, prophesied that it "will long be told in song and story...
...flash in the pan, the discussion was elaborately organized to enlist the opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain...
...three raids in a week. Helsinki's citizens, who do not scare easily, amused themselves during one alarm by potting one another with snowballs. During another they watched a Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...
Stalin bounded to the platform. Gone in a flash was his Little Red Father pose. This time he really let the U. S. comrades have it. Snarled Stalin: The U. S. comrades can go home right away, and "the only ones who will follow you will be your sweethearts and wives...