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...stunned British and French Colonial troops choked, fell and fled as clouds of chlorine boiled into their trenches. But the Germans did not or could not follow up their first quick triumph. Every military man worth his salt knows that all such talk is only high theory, that poison gas is the most fearful horror of war, that it will be the weapon of last resort, when all other known military means have failed to force a decision. Masks on Frontiers. The outlook for civilians, as usual, is not rosy...
...demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison gases, five smoke agents for screening, and the trustworthy incendiary, thermite. The poison gases: mustard, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, chlorpicrin, diphosgene, phosgene and chlorine. Mustard gas is popular with high commands. It rises, colorless, from a soupy, machine-oil sort of liquid, burns a man inside...
Churchill warned Germany sharply against the use of poison gas (see p. 24), then touched adroitly on the question of a second front...
...real significance of Madagascar is that its lee shore shelters the 250-mile wide, heavily-trafficked Mozambique Channel, which, if the island were in Jap hands, would seem to Allied shipping like the neck of a bottle of poison. From the island the Japanese could play hob with Allied shipping bound either for Suez or India. But for once the Jap had been beaten to the punch...
CALAMITY TOWN-Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2). The prescient Mr. Queen, unable to prevent the poison-murder he foresaw, probes small-town family histories for an unexpected answer to an intricate and beguiling mystery. The best Queen story in several years...