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London v. Hamburg. Whether or not Germany was feinting to study her foe's reaction, as she did twice last winter before invading the Lowlands, last week the Battle of Britain stayed in the air and at sea. Bad weather reduced the fighting from the busy week prior, but a battle of words raged over results...
...colony at Mystic is Robert Brackman, 41, outspoken foe of "modern" art, a National Academy member, who is well off with 53 summer students, gets fat prices for his female nudes, and in his portrait work can afford to turn down women, paint only men whose faces he admires. It includes Guy Pene du Bois whose fame dates back to pre-War I days when he, Davies, Bellows, Luks, Henri were putting modern U. S. painting on the map. Another member is young, happy-go-lucky Galed Gesner (usually willing to let a picture go for the price...
After the next victorious war we must strike the conquered foe so mercilessly that his spirit and the spirit of his children will be crushed for generations. No conquered foe must ever again dare to look a German in the face as an equal. He must recognize him as his overlord...
...question. They had no stomach for the war, but neither had the people of France. French industry, French labor and France's political leaders dawdled through nine months of war while Germany grew stronger & stronger. Laval the Appeaser had no place in the Government, but when Paul Reynaud, foe of appeasement, succeeded Edouard Daladier and made Paul Baudouin his Foreign Minister, the door was thus obliquely opened for appeasement...
Action began (both sides agreed) when Italian scouts spied a British squadron steaming west below Crete. Italian airplanes flew out to meet this foe and (said the Italians) damaged a battleship and an aircraft carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians...