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...faced the front in 1917 faced front again. California's Warren Atherton, the Legion's defense committee, brought out a resolution urging every practicable aid to Great Britain and China, and saying, "If we have to fight, let's fight beyond our shores before any foe can effect invasion...
...Hurricanes seem to be pursuing and intercepting successfully the very aerial foe we are preparing to ward off, and yet for that same function the U. S. must pay more than three times as much, plane for plane. Is it inefficiency, the standard of living, or gravy...
This week Hermann Göring moved up to take direct command. "In this historic hour," he said as the raids intensified, "the German Air Force for the first time has struck into the heart of the foe...
...Adolf Hitler-and to tell his own people what was in store for them. The Prime Minister was also jaunty. Although the House had had to adjourn for an hour during an air raid, Mr. Churchill's humor was intact. He began by paying his respects to his foe ("No doubt Herr Hitler will not like this transference of [U.S.] destroyers"), went on to express his confidence that Hitler's Empire would pass away more quickly than did Napoleon's Army ("although of course without any of its glitter and glory"). Then Winston Churchill got down...
...scientists think the virus is the most primitive form of life; others insist it is a heavy protein molecule, with complex chemical reactions, a kind of crystal which exists as a parasite on living tissue. But whatever the nature of the virus, one fact is certain: it is the foe of all living things, from microbe...