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Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...even more." Although the British press had been-as far as was deemed politic-all for Roosevelt's reelection, a shaken London paper murmured: "Willkie is the most interesting personality with the exception of Mr. Roosevelt who has appeared in American public life since the other Roosevelt withdrew from it nearly 30 years...
...What it is, is a correlation between sciences. ... If one must classify it, call it a philosophy." Geography, Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems of finding shelter, food, defense, and has probably not progressed since the great glacier withdrew. Then nomadic men settled in the grasslands of the Nile, Euphrates, Yangtze, etc., to become tillers and develop cultures. Out of the nomadic, pastoral life of the early Jews grew the symbolism of their religion and of Christianity-e.g., "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want...
...British pressure intensified and a heavy pall of battle smoke obscured Bardia, General Mario Berti, commanding the beleaguered Blackshirts, withdrew his guns and massed them on the west side of the town, to cover the evacuation of such men as could be spared and saved. General Berti, who commanded the Italian volunteers in Spain, has a reputation for last-ditch fighting and added to it considerably last week...
...appeal to Frenchmen in France to hold out against the Vichy Government. "Free France," said its leader, "now has 35,000 trained troops under arms, 20 warships in service, 1,000 aviators and 60 merchant ships at sea." In a phrase reminiscent of Dakar (where De Gaulle forces withdrew rather than fight other Frenchmen) General de Gaulle declared: "If necessary we will employ force to free French people who are prevented from doing their duty by the ghastly ambiguity of subservience to the rulers of betrayal...