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...Last week President Roosevelt took a step that Editor Coghlan had feared: without consulting Congress he sold 50 overage destroyers to Britain. Without even waiting for Attorney General Jackson's legal opinion to come in over the wire, Ralph Coghlan tore out the lead editorial he had written for that day's editions, substituted another...
...Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British bombs fell, more Berliners died, as 100-lb. demolition charges tore down through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High...
...tree last week marched Hitler Youth Leader Wilde, followed by a bevy of apple-cheeked youths with axes and drums. "For Germany this tree is a symbol of slavery and oppression," cried Leader Wilde. "Now the tree must fall." Drums rolled. Axes fell. Down came the tree. Hitler youths tore its roots out of the earth and marched away shouting "Sieg Heil...
Bermudians. Outside the "Lodge" of the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73-year-old Anglican Bishop of Bermuda-who once publicly tore down a photograph of the Windsors but apologized for it-the flag of St. George flew until just before the visiting Governor arrived...
...White House to the convention blasted barter, said it would "subject . . . the entire nation to the regimentation of a totalitarian system." Henry Francis Grady, Assistant Secretary of State, followed up his chief's attack in person. His small eyes flashing behind shell-rimmed glasses, Free-Trader Grady tore into protectionism, dictatorship, a "sixth column ... of special interests." Said he: "I cannot believe that the cause of liberal trade is lost...