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Britain's territorial integrity in Hong Kong would not be worth a bosun's whistle if Japan really attacked the possession. Last week's maneuver, though its announced purpose (like that of the occupation of Canton in October 1938) was to cut the flow of supplies into...
The original German plan provided that the First Army under Kluck was to pass through Belgium, shoulder the Belgian Army out of the war, march southwest of Paris across the Seine, protecting the German right flank. But in the uncertainty of movement and position, Kluck lost direction, veered toward Paris...
One sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose...
Last week Congressional Record readers guffawed at the latest maneuver of the Prescott, Ariz. polysyllabist-an insertion of no less than 19½ pages (40,000-plus words) of Ashurstiana, the nearest thing there is to a complete collected edition of the famed, lush, Ashurstian magniloquence. Said debonair Henry happily...
The last hope of peace between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. flickered out last week. It died the day John L. Lewis assigned to his less shaggy, more gregarious Brother Denny the task of CIOrganizing 2,000,000 U. S. construction workers. This maneuver struck...