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...year-old Marquess of Salisbury had viewed many things with alarm. He was horrified (1934) at the idea that his government might offer India dominion status-"the ideal of Gandhi!" He thought (1936) King Edward's abdication "a disaster that left [the body politic] mutilated and torn." He considered (1937) that allowing divorce on the ground of desertion or incurable in sanity would "launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot...
...struggle in which the Red Armies and the Russian people are now engaged. Every scene is packed with action, action that wasn't prepared in advance by scriptwriters and directors. It is action caught by the camera of photographers who followed the battles through the ruined villages and torn fields that are Russia's battle-grounds...
This report of a trip through battle-torn Stalingrad was written by Author Konstantin Simonov, published in Moscow's Krasnaya Zvezda and cabled to TIME by its Moscow Correspondent Walter Graebner...
...means of figures so secret they were torn up in small bits before the Senators left the committee room, the Army showed that six Axis planes are shot down to each U.S. plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
...turned up the collar of his coat, and watched the crowds milling their way across Anderson Bridge. And the wind was blowing dirty scraps of programs and torn tickets between his feet. Dreams are grand, he smiled wanly and thought of the game. All-Americans that Pre-Flight team has been, big fellows who danced up and down when they came out on the field. He remembered the tense voices about him in the stands, laughing too quickly as they predicted which part of the first quarter the third Pre-Flight touchdown would come. Only they didn't score...