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With course-work reduced because this "might interfere with tutorial," and with tutorial reduced because tutors just weren't interested in thesisless Seniors, the Plan B man enjoyed a glorious if useless second-half year: no lectures, no course papers, no finals, no thesis, and just a general exam to worry about...
...Eastern Mediterranean Fleet steamed proudly back to Alexandria-with no bad damage, and not a single man having lost so much as a hand-the British indulged in glorious postmortems. When the Italians said they were positive that they had sunk a British cruiser, British who had been in the battle suddenly remembered a curious thing: after they had quit the action, they had heard gunfire -could it be that the Italians had sunk one of their...
Miss Horn's contempt is matched by compassion for the plight of the Filipino people. To them, independence is a "bright bauble, merely a gaudy word filled with vague but glorious implications." It is foisted upon them by politicians who themselves doubt its advisability. Should the Filipinos still want independence in 1946 (when the U. S. is willing to relinquish its sovereignty), the U. S. will kill most of their exports with prohibitive tariffs. Their domestic economy demolished, the Philippines could not hope to escape Japanese control through economic (if not military) conquest...
...Lend-Lease opponents, ready for glorious martyrdom, with headlines and pictures, knew the bill would pass without substantial amendment. Yet they hammered nightly on the radio, appealing to U. S. mothers to write their Congressmen, protesting against the bill. Some mothers did. The group known as the "Mothers' Crusade Against Bill 1776" did more: they staged a sit-down strike in the Senate Office Building corridors before the door of bantam, spitfire Carter Glass of Virginia, who is ready to declare war on Hitler any time. The Mothers' leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dilling (author of The Red Network...
...band of outlaws who steal their horses, turn the Indians against them, fire their camp. Leader of the outlaws is Vance's brother, Jack Slade (Barton MacLane). Vance's resolution wavers but in the end he proves worthy of Creighton's trust, dies in a glorious gun-battle with his brother...