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...President, like the people, is in trouble. His desk is piled high with unsolved problems. There is the threat of inflation, the lag in production, the lack of unity in his Army & Navy-to say nothing of far-flung problems of democratic unity throughout the world...
...incorruptible Judge Ferguson beats off the threat of Gerald Smith, he will come up against a worthy opponent in November: rugged, independent Democratic Senator Prentiss M. Brown. Michigan will probably be one of the few States with two meritorous candidates for the Senate...
...through Sir Stafford Cripps, the British were standing pat. Crusty Leopold Stennett Amery, Secretary of State for India, reiterated his Government's support of eventual Indian self-government, but warned India that the Government "will not flinch from their duty" to combat civil disobedience. There was a counter-threat that, if the British jailed all Congress leaders, the aged and frail Gandhi might die a martyr's death. Sir Stafford hinted that Gandhi's actions were treasonable...
When the Vichyfrench were cleaned out of Syria last year, the British, assuming military control, handed over civil control to their De Gaullist allies. Britain's job was to prepare strategic Syria against the threat of Nazi invasion. Scores of new airdromes were built, 4,000 miles of highways repaired or constructed across the Syrian badlands...
...Double Threat. While the big bombers were busy, and while they squatted at their dispersal stations, lighter planes of the R.A.F.-two-engined bombers and fighter bombers-ranged continuously over the occupied areas in swarms of from half a dozen to 200 at a time. Before big bombing raids they smashed at anti-aircraft installations, sucked German pursuits into fights. At other times they worked on transportation, blew up trains, cannoned locomotives, flipped bombs into railroad yards...