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...Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram: "If the Mayor would only cool down, resign his national defense job and devote himself to his full-time duties in City Hall, he would be surprised...
...London Daily Mirror Correspondent David Walker Such E. Phillips Oppenheimish apprehensions were commonplace realities last week among Europe's chief neutrals. The world waited to see whether Adolf Hitler, balked in Russia, would strike massively through Turkey at Suez and the Near East, or through Spain and Portugal at Northwest Africa. Both courses had their prophets. The prosecution of both at once was possible...
...nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo...
Said London Daily Mirror Columnist Cassandra: "The rank & file of the legal profession are solid in their hostility toward 18B. Lord Atkin's historic dissent becomes more apparent in its greatness. . . . We are putting plenty in pawn . . . and I for one don't like either the pawnshop or the pawnbroker...
Alarmed M.P.s, still feeling that way, smelled a "sinister" monopoly by a handful of Britain's big publishers-Lord Rothermere (who inherited his father's title last year-Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), Major John Jacob Astor (the Times'), Lord Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more...