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...Italians could reply only with intermittent fire. The British land-sea-air attack had silenced most of their guns. Huge clouds of smoke hung over the battered town. Then a whole section of the cliff gave way. Roaring down to the sea in an avalanche of sand and rock it wiped out many of the Italian gun positions in a single stroke...
Posters announcing details of the exhibition will go up on Monday. The following constitute an informal committee for giving out information to prospective contributors Adams and the Union, Turner: Dudley and Lowell, John Rolabrid '42; Dunster, Munroe Winter '41; Leverett F. Friedrich A. Bruck '41; and Kirkland George Rock...
...great is the danger? Mr. Roosevelt said: "Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our American civilization been in such danger as now." Who is the enemy? The President pointed to the tripartite agreement of the Axis powers-Germany, Italy & Japan-in "the threat that if the United States interfered with or blocked ... a program aimed at world control-they would unite in ultimate action against the United States." What is the Nazi program? He said: ". . . To dominate all life and thought in their own country ... to enslave the whole of Europe ... to use the resources of Europe...
...Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune, urbane dean of Washington columnists, saw the situation as a case of national split-personality-mass schizophrenia. Even this metaphorical complexity was too simple. Public opinion was not so much like a river that flows in one direction, but divides on the rock of a principle, as it was like a maelstrom. Men who wanted with all their minds to give all aid to England wanted also with all their hearts to feed Europe-which would break England's blockade. Men who wanted to stay out of war with Germany also wanted...
Only one person was killed, little serious damage done. Severe quakes of the kind that ravaged Rumania last autumn are caused by gradually built up stresses and sudden slips along faults (fractures) in subterranean rock. They typically occur in geologically "young" regions where mountain building or volcanic activity are common. The rocks of the northeastern U. S. are old, have long since settled down to geological sleep. No major stresses and slips can occur...