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Probability, however, does not run to extremes. Before Britain could be beaten there is every likelihood that part, perhaps a substantial part of the British Fleet would be lost in the fighting around the British Isles. Even if the bulk of the British Home Fleet should be surrendered, units stationed in the Mediterranean, colonies and dominions, might well escape German hands. The practical hypotheses fall into three classes...
...Rome began a steady rise. This slacked off last week because the great Italian textile trust Snia Viscosa, known to have fat profiteering spoils, declared only its ordinary dividend. The State was said to be "persuading" all Italy's great corporations to carry war profits as "reserves"-with likelihood that the State may later take most of these by a special tax. Bouncingest Italian war baby stocks are mercury shares which have trebled since September...
...Soviet Ambassador Jacob Suritz angrily protested, demanding release of several arrested Soviet clerks, his demand was flatly rejected. Home from Moscow to Paris, ostensibly on sick leave, hustled French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. With the certainty that Great Britain and France are now rushing large supplies to Finland, the likelihood of a break was hotting...
Scarlett O'Hara was, after all, no model of propriety, so there was little likelihood the suit would damage Vivien's professional career...
...Hertogenbosch, Tilburg and Eindhoven, is where the first German assault could be expected. Gaining this foothold, the Germans could then press on to take Flushing and other coastal points south of the river deltas, enjoying the Dutch flood zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace to Belgium, was believed last week to have led King Leopold to tell Queen Wilhelmina that if the Germans invaded her land, his troops would have to occupy her southeastern corner to meet them. Also, it was understood, he would invite the British...