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...should be eliminated forever. He's taking steps to do just that in the U. S. semi-pro finals here next August. He is arranging to have a tube run out to home plate at the stadium here containing compressed air. A man in the press box will push a button and the air will dust off the plate automatically...
Monday. "German boys," lied Berlin papers on Monday, "are mishandled with brass knuckles . . . while Jews applaud. . . . German houses are fired on by Czech armored cars. . . . Murder and arson rule again in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. . . ." Radio announcers talked of "Communists in Czech gendarme uniforms." Next day the push began in earnest...
...century ago the press of England, if not its Government, was made of tougher stuff. The Times was not the Government organ it is now but a muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
Meantime, the Roosevelt Recovery push proceeded on a dozen fronts-but not without incongruities. The most notable pushes...
...outside world had been curious about Stalin's view of the German push to the East. Would he threaten Hitler? Would he talk about Russia's armed strength? To everyone's surprise his remarks were addressed not against Germany but against the democracies, whom he charged with "urging the Germans on to march farther East, promising them easy pickings and prompting them: 'You start a war against the Bolsheviks and then everything will proceed nicely.' " Their ulterior motive, he said, was to get Germany and Russia into war, let them knock each other groggy...