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...Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving Memory, most ambitious, least successful of the five, is the story of a London newspaperman who discovers in his dead wife's diary after ten years of ostensibly happy marriage, a clashing, paranoiac manifesto of what she really thought...
With tragic deaths on nearby campuses bringing the subject into the news last year, local investigation revealed a tremendous number of lethal weapons in dormitory possession of Harvard students...
Military experts of the Great Powers, hitherto inclined to see Spain's Civil War professionally as a small testing ground for the latest lethal equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with...
Respiratory Irritants cause sneezing and vomiting. They are not strong casualty producers by themselves, but when first employed they penetrated masks, made it intolerable for soldiers to keep their masks on and thus exposed them to lethal gases like phosgene which were fired in the same bombardment. Favorite irritant of the Germans was diphenylchlorarsine. The Entente developed a similar one called diphenylaminechlorarsine (Adam-site), but never got it into action. These irritants are not stopped by any canister chemicals and an extremely efficient filter, which makes for hard breathing, is necessary...
...scarehead article in which he stated: "Twelve big bombs of Lewisite gas dropped on Berlin or Chicago would be enough to destroy all life in those cities." Chemical officers jumped on this statement as utter nonsense. Author Prentiss points out that to lay down any sort of effective (not lethal) contamination it would be necessary to deposit 10 Ib. of vesicant liquid on every...