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Just a year ago last week the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn's Dodgers had faced one another in a do-or-die showdown for the National League pennant. And Brooklyn's big Righthander Whit Wyatt had pitched the Dodgers to a 1-to-0 shutout against the Cards' big Righthander Mort Cooper...
Probably Franco would not attack until, and if, Marshal Rommel reached Suez in the threatening showdown fight in North Africa (see p. 24). Then, if both Rommel and Franco were successful, the Mediterranean would be plugged at both ends and the United Nations would be given another lesson in Axis cooperation...
...their national leaders, were being drawn into secret orders and nationalistic groups working for secession, inviting civil war. Dawdling Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King knew about them,* but did not act. The longer the Government dawdled, failing either to crack down on Fascist agitators or come to a showdown on conscription, the wider became the breach between English-and French-speaking Canadians...
...like the torpedoings in the St. Lawrence, that those with common interests would stand or fall together in World War II. The dwindling number of French-Canadian M.P.'s (reduced from over 40 to 13) who openly proclaimed that they would bolt the Liberal Party in a conscription showdown gave hope that the Quebecois' sound common sense was mak-ing him at last aware that Hitler, not his fellow Canadian, was his enemy...
...When the showdown came, Father Charles Edward Coughlin folded his weekly, Social Justice, for good. Three weeks ago he blamed "Jews and Communists and New Dealers" for Attorney General Biddie's charge of sedition against the paper, and dared the Government to call him to the witness stand. But last week he did not even show up to defend his second-class mailing privileges. Instead he wired meekly to Postmaster General Frank Walker saying he "approved" the formal promise of Social Justice that it would go out of business...