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...leader of the British Labor Party's intellectual left wing, Conservative Neville Chamberlain was not in the market for his wares. But Winston Churchill, definitely was. The risk-all Churchill Cabinet was in favor of getting any friends it could. Fortnight ago they dispatched Sir Stafford to Moscow via the Mediterranean...
...every Sunday morning, the choir soon had Cleveland by the ears, quickly graduated to a CBS network. Today, under the program name of Wings Over Jordan, the choir is carried by 107 Columbia stations, attracts 5,000 letters a week, is heard via short wave all over the world...
...post and Princeton Listening Centre. The omitted fact: my listening post has operated since January 1939, that is, before CBS started; and published a day-by-day analysis since Oct. 10, 1939, or before Princeton got under way. It also provided the bulk of the material incorporated in Propaganda Via Shortwave (Feb. 26) by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis...
...night before, gangs of young Fa-scisti had roamed the streets plastering walls with posters that announced: COLLAPSE OF THE DEMOCRACIES, INCONTESTABLE PROOF OF FRANCO-BRITISH DEFEAT. In front of the Regina Carlton Hotel in the Via Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British...
...nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...