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Against Borah stood the Administration viewpoint: 1) This is 1939, not 1918; the U. S. embargo on arms to all belligerents gives Adolf Hitler almost the equivalent of an Atlantic fleet, because Great Britain and France can get no arms from the U. S. 2) Britain and France are fighting the fight of democracy against world revolution, are not just engaged in another imperialistic quarrel...
...this indicated that the course was clearly charted. Avoid Scylla, the Russian Army, and Charybdis, the U. S. Fleet, and sail straight through to victory in China. Big news of the week was getting past Scylla...
...Leipzig, and later as Commander in Chief, Brauchitsch concentrated on building up the armored motor divisions of the Army. In 1937 Germany had only two such divisions. By September 1 of this year she had six, each with an average strength of 13,000 men, besides a fleet of 8,000 tanks capable of going 18-20 m.p.h. It was this force that swept through Poland with such devastating fury...
...fleet-footed Freshman named Mumzert was the winner of yesterday's epic Registration Race at Memorial Hall. Mumzert, in fact, was going so fast as he left the ordeal of name signing, that he failed to leave his first name with the special CRIMSON correspondent who had been assigned to cover the annual event. His prize was a subscription to Cambridge's breakfast table newspaper...
Headquarters of the British Ministry of Information is a tall, white stone building in Bloomsbury (taken over from the University of London), a mile away from Fleet Street. Here are issued all official press bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...