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Climax. When he arrived in Washington, Lord Lothian threw open the diplomatic windows, beat the dust out of some old customs, hung some diplomatic taboos out on the line in plain sight of the neighbors. He held a press conference after his first visit to the White House as Ambassador, talked freely with reporters, broadened the circle of Embassy guests from the traditional group of highly placed Government officials who are also social, made contacts with New Dealers as well as with old Rhodes Scholars. Except for a little sniping, he has not been criticized as a propagandist, has been...
Like an eel chopped to pieces, fragments of the French Army continued to wriggle and resist all across France last week even after the nation's surrender was signed and sealed in a railroad car at Compiegne (see p. 20). In hate and despair many a Frenchman threw his life away-taking a German or so with him-a week after the war had been lost...
...near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where the Rhone boils under sheer rock cliffs. The Legionnaires' commander telephoned to the nearest German general, at Pontarlier: "Come and get us." The Germans came. They captured Bellegarde. When they stormed up to the forts, the Legionnaires threw them back, threw them out of the town. As fast as the Germans landed parachute troops on the Joux fortress, the Legionnaires picked them off. By night they foraged the countryside for barbed wire and cattle, swearing they would not surrender unless they got hungry. The Germans came back...
...victims. At Wells, Me., a crowd went to one man's house, demanding to know whether he was a Witness and whether he would salute the flag. Reported A. P.: "When the man denied membership and expressed no objection to saluting the flag, the crowd became abusive and threw stones at the house." Not until calmer heads pointed out that throwing stones would do no good to Maine's summer tourist season did thrifty Down-Easterners stay their hands...
Disguised as Mexican policemen, 20 men armed with Tommy guns broke into the patio of an isolated Coyoacán villa one night last week. They overpowered five guards, threw an incendiary bomb into the patio, and in the light of its flare proceeded to shoot up all the rooms giving on the courtyard. Then they went inside the house and, standing outside the master's bedroom door, whaled 300 rounds through it. After five minutes of incessant firing, the attackers made off, and Mexico's most famous exile, Leon Trotsky, rose with his wife from the floor...