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Last week Japanese Zero fighters roared over the graves at Broome. Machine guns and aircraft cannon peppered the town and its airdrome, while 650 miles around the curve of the coast, at Wyndham, the Zeros struck again. At the oft-hit port of Darwin, they completed a pattern of things to come: Darwin, Wyndham, Broome are places to be invaded. With them in hand, the Japs would command Australia's northern coast, the wild interior desert which lies between the upper coast and southern Australia...
...Kruse's comparison of the present situation with that of 1919 does not hold water; and he himself admits that "the world war veterans did not fit so normally into the social pattern...
...first World War, Kruse claimed that the great numbers of young men and women who have grown up under Hitler can be assimilated successfully into German life. "In 1919 the soldiers returned from the front fitted normally into the home economic structure, if not so normally into the social pattern...
This is reason enough, thinks Author Morison, to believe that Columbus was not a Spaniard or a Portuguese (both na tions claim him as a native son). Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
...present. Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who rose to become Secretary of State under President Hayes, is his particular idol. Viereck's book is dedicated to Schurz, as proof that the same German type that is misled in Europe can become an integral part of the American national pattern if the emotional environs of the old country are removed...