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...Battle of Crete last week reached Puget Sound. The Bainbridge Review (a suburban weekly, brightly edited by young Seattlites) burst out with a banner headline: REVIEW VIOLATES A NATIONAL CENSORSHIP. Prefacing its editorial with the statement, "For several weeks now the Review has been torn between a normal desire to obey an unofficial Government censorship and what we feel deeply to be a solemn duty to our readers," the Review announced that the British battleship Warspite was in the Bremerton Navy Yard near Seattle for repairs. The Review's reasons...
...briskly one night on Blue Army maneuvers. In those unfrequented wilds, maps proved almost worthless; compasses led them into blind alleys. Rain poured down almost constantly. Cigarets ran out. Food supplies ran low (even though eked out with berries and crawfish). One man broke his arm; practically everyone had torn uniforms, wrecked shoes, bruises, scratches...
Almat, meanwhile, was torn by internal bickering, indecision, by pleas of President Oosenay for intervention by the King of Sweden. Leader of Almat's peace party was a Senator Speeler ("I condemn this display of force by our foolhardy Government at this critical juncture. . . . It is as though we were at war. ... I cry for peace and greater social gains"). So war came and Kotmk assaulted the hastily assembled Almat army...
...like a torn and faded snapshot that turns out to be crucial evidence at a murder trial, the Treasury's order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn...
...idea set in a wilderness." "As in 1800 and 1850, so in 1860," wrote Henry Adams, "the same rude colony was camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads." The dome of the Capitol had been torn down for repairs; of hundreds of Corinthian columns, only three were in place. The rest lay scattered about the lawns among blocks of marble, lumber, iron, workmen's sheds, heaps of coal and wood. Augustly seated among the debris was the statue of George Washington, "modeled on the Roman conception of Jupiter Tonans...