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...Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...
...Kieckhefer, Country Editor, Minneapolis Star-Journal; Kenneth F. McCormick, Reporter, Detroit Free Press; Arthur B. Musgrave, Copy Editor, Houston Post; Fred W. Neal, Washington correspondent, Wall Street Journal; Robert Okin, Reporter and rewrite man, Associated Press, New York; Oren M. Stephens, Sunday editor and columnist, Arkansas Deocrat, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William A. Townes, Assistant City Editor, Cleveland Press...
...Selkirk Range, some 80 or 100 miles southwest of Lake Louise and Bauff, offers some of the best rockclimbing in North America. Unlike the Rockies in this country, the Selkirks are hard rock, not shale, and will not crumble under a pick. Mt. Sir Donald, which the party hopes to climb, towers nearly 11,000 feet and is the highest peak of the range, though there are many nearly as high...
...Nipponese far-flung pincers. The garrisons of Alaska, Hawaii and the American West Coast could be safely thrown into the Hokkaido drive against Honshu and Tokyo." Adds Kiralfy, "Chicago can be better protected in Hokkaido than in Colorado." To non-military readers, an invasion of Japan from the rock-bound coasts of Karafuto may seem a little fantastic. They should not forget that war is fantastic. The importance of Expert Kiralfy's contribution to strategy is that, like the strategists of the Axis, he possesses the revolutionary mind, which is akin to the offensive mind. "To dare!" said Saint...
...promptly restored all she ate all over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite people who made up the Garden Party Only list in sister Barbara's address book. On these Basil cleaned up in one heart-squeezing blackmail after another, for they were willing to pay with their own souls for the Connollies' removal. When...