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Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
Last week Peyrouton looked more like the strong man of the Cabinet. Onetime colonial administrator in Morocco and Tunisia, onetime Ambassador to Argentina, he is a politician who has kept out of the mainstream of politics. As Chief of Police, he has fired 57 out of 94 prefects, 230 out of 261 sub-prefects, appointed Army and Navy officers in their places. With the Foreign Ministry under Pierre Étienne Flandin, whom Petain does not trust either, the Marshal must have felt the need of a pair of shoulders as husky as M. Peyrouton...
Apart from invading Britain at once and winning the war with one supreme smash, which it was doubtful Hitler felt strong enough to do, three other ways of helping Italy suggested themselves: 1) a drive from the west coast of France, down across submissive Spain, at Gibraltar; 2) sending troops from Hitler's pool of 1,000,000 men in Austria (see map) to put some spine into the Italian armies now afield; 3) sending troops from the smaller pool in Rumania, to attack Greece from the rear across Bulgaria...
...eastern wing of the southern war theatre. Somewhere below Khartoum was wizened little Emperor Haile Selassie, sending word to tribesmen in the fastnesses of captive Ethiopia that the day of liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...
General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...