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...Fifth Column" has the makings of a great play, but a present it contains little more than raw materials. To his forceful hatred of Fascism Hemingway has added a love story which amounts to little more than that. The romance does not seem real; it certainly has no vital connection with the rest of the ideas in the play. Clothing this poorly-wedded couple is Hemingway's command of the English language. Yet clothes do not make the play...
...Southerners with emotions and water pipes alike close to the surface, with houses built for warmer winters and with crops like oranges, lettuce, satsumas, grapefruit still unharvested, it was a week of sore trial-a week of raw winds, raw tempers, busted water pipes, frozen radiators, sniffles, skids, tumbles-a week of frustration when auto-supply houses ran out of tire chains, when hot-water heaters blew up, trains were late, mails delayed, and cases of influenza (10,000 in North Louisiana) closed schools that few children could reach. Snowbound New Englanders of Whittier's day might be undisturbed...
Germany's ministers to all the Balkan nations were mobilized last fortnight in Berlin, on the eve of this week's meeting of the Balkan Entente in Belgrade. The crisis of one of the decisive battles of the War was at hand - a battle for the raw materials of the Balkans...
...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...
Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...