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...prophetic. For he says: ". . . Winston Churchill is a political giant among giants, one of the several world statesmen, upon whose shoulders might fall the task of saving not only their own democracy, but ours too." And the date of the issue is Aug. 28, 1939-the week before the outbreak of war and when Churchill was politically still out in the wilderness...
...hundred yards from President Roosevelt the swastika flew boldly under a fresh southeasterly wind. It flew from the stern of the German freighter Arauca, chased into Port Everglades, Fla. by a British cruiser soon after the outbreak of the war. For 15 months the Arauca had sported a swastika, but a small one. One day last week, when President Roosevelt's special train had pulled into the siding at the Port Everglades dock, the little swastika was replaced by a huge...
...before the student outbreak was the time for riots, if there were to be any. That day was the third anniversary of Mexico's expropriation of foreign-owned oil properties, celebrated in Mexico as a national holiday. Usually an excuse for demonstrations against Yankee imperialism, the day passed without serious incident this year. Workers paraded in the great square outside the National Palace, while inscrutable President Manuel Avila Camacho stood on the balcony with a guard of honor, waving his hand, smiling with the slightly grim air of a man who wanted no more nonsense...
...potato came to Europe from the New World in the 16th Century. Its parasitic fungus followed about 1840, attacked almost every potato plant in Europe. Worst outbreak was in Ireland, whose wretched peasantry was already starving because of another parasite, the English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event...
...former undergraduate in the University of Stanford, Shallenberger was in Munich at the war's outbreak on a scholarship granted, in reality, by the Nazis, although it was not in the German Government's name...