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...Deutschland and her sisters have an extraordinary beam of 118 ft.-about 25 ft. wider than the biggest liners afloat. This indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...been enlarged by the distribution on an equitable basis of all common charges, and by the establishment of complete solidarity between our two monies, the franc and the pound sterling. This Franco-British Union is open to all. ... I [can] conceive that the new Europe should have a wider organization. . . . Commercial exchange must be multiplied, and perhaps federative bonds envisaged between the various European States." In the French military budget it was estimated that the cost of running the war during 1940 would be $5,931,000,000, to be raised by a series of loans. First loans will...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...
While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's Arab owner not only turned down this princely offer but refused to sell at any price-and was promptly arrested. Disemboweling the old camel, police found it had been forced to swallow zinc cylinders containing narcotics by Arab smugglers who recently have been driving a surprising number of decrepit camels...
...figures show that there has been a movement towards wider distribution by concentrators during recent years as compared with the early years of the last decade. In 1921, 45 per cent of the upperclassmen concentrated in English and Economics. Today 35 per cent are spread over Economics, Government, and English...