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He tried to fill out his Foreign Minister's unfinished address: "Our country faces one of those exceptional historical occasions when . . . destiny . . . opens up before it. . . ." France's destiny rested on three great issues: 1) settlement of the German problem with French participation (this would permit "the unity...
Slowly and foggily, the news of a Czechoslovak disaster trickled out from the core of Europe. Almost unnoticed by the rest of the world, the Slovaks had risen in their mountainous country, had waged war for some two months. Now, said Berlin, they had been wiped out by seven German...
The cause of the crisis was the question of Canadian Army reinforcements. Evidence had been piling up that reinforcements for Canada's overseas army were inadequate. In Calgary, Brigadier P. R. Shields, home after five years of fighting, said that when he left England "they were scraping the bottom...
Last week they were still trying to break the Germans, bump them into a disastrous run. But the Nazis, busy at one of their most carefully nurtured arts-retreat-held fast. On successive days, U.S. and Polish troops lost bridgeheads across watercourses to withering German fire, had to fight again...
Among the chief things oceanographers would like to know is the nature of 1) the mud and silt deposits, believed to range from 600 feet to seven and a half miles thick, which cover the ocean bottom, and 2) the earth's suboceanic ribs under these deposits. Ewing has...