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...Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed by the crisis. He did well by the 4,300 calories (twice the volume of three ordinary meals) from gingered fresh fruit in cider through roast young torn turkey and oyster-corn stuffing to pumpkin...
...think most of my offensive efforts remained pigeonholed in the War Staff offices." In April 1940, when Britain's Cabinet and military were still crammed with appeasement-minded men, he cited the "lessons of Gallipoli, where we failed for lack of bold policy . . . defeated . . . by the pusillanimous Government torn by conflicting advice and fearful of responsibility." A month later he revealed that the War Cabinet had refused his demand that he attempt the capture of Trondheim, and he said baldly that such a capture would have been possible and might well have changed the entire course of Germany...
...Chile must elect a new President within 70 days of a President's death. President Aguirre's Popular Front has been torn by dissension among Communists, Socialists and the President's own Radical Party. It has been attacked from the right by wealthy Chileans resisting the taxation on which President Aguirre built his general benefits. It has been threatened by such dictatorial ambitions as those of Chile's former strong man, General Carlos Ibanez del Campo. President Aguirre was elected in 1938 by a margin of only 2,111 votes, and if his devotion to Chile...
While the Government pondered this turn of the Times, India's 8,000 political prisoners stayed in jail and India was torn with political dissension...
Author Koeves is constantly torn between his desire to prove that Papen is a fool and his demonstration that he is satanically clever. To Author Koeves Franz von Papen may sometimes seem stupid. But to himself Franz von Papen must seem quite a success-at least as successful as the Abbe Sieyes, who, when asked: "What did you do in the French Revolution?," replied: "I survived...