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...Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other Commando-men were captured, have languished since in a prison camp. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Augustus Charles Newman, in a regular installment of his Barbed Wire Diary to his wife, last week told of the honor to Beattie. Other excerpts...
Last winter's first British experiment in teaching U.S. history didn't get very far. Most secondary schoolchildren, who knew far more about ancient Greece than about the U.S., believed "the best people withdrew from the colony and left the troublemakers to fight it out among themselves." And via Hollywood, they believed in gangster-ruled cities and an all-cowboy West...
...grazed by a bullet under the left arm. But Nash was killed (Floyd got away). Vetterli was the FBI agent in Kansas City when Mary McElroy was kidnapped; he helped round up the San Jose, Calif, kidnappers of Brooke Hart in 1934 (mobsters lynched the kidnappers after the FBI withdrew from the case), he investigated the William Gettle kidnapping in Arcadia, Calif, the same year...
...Russians were weak enough, so weak that they passively relinquished what they could not defend. But the Japs were as yet none too strong, certainly not strong enough to withstand the U.S. diplomatic pressure which was soon turned upon them. Because of this pressure, they withdrew their armies, returned formal sovereignty over the invaded territory to Russia, kept some trading concessions-and never forgave the U.S. Once again, just as in the earlier Russo-Japanese War's aftermath, the U.S., all unknowing, had indelibly-imprinted itself in Japanese minds as an enemy of Japan in Asia...
...State declared war on denigrating Native Son Bob Burns, forced him to return to a Little Rock mass meeting and explain. He promised to present "a truly sympathetic character" in the movies, subsequently withdrew from Paramount's scheduled Wizard of Arkansas because it caricatured his native State. When Paramount sued, all Arkansas rose in Burns's defense...