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...News. Round-bellied, globe-trotting Bob Casey knows his Luxembourg better than any other reporter in the business. He first went there as an artilleryman in 1918, loved it so well that he stayed on to write the first of his 15 books, The Land of Haunted Castles. No alarmist is he. Last autumn, when Paris correspondents were worrying about German concentrations opposite Luxembourg, Reporter Casey coolly tooled through the German lines in a taxicab. Last week he had this...
...Alarmist's View...
Three Aces. In England, France and Poland Franklin Roosevelt last week had three Ambassadors who were doing an unusually good job. And the other two were extraordinary foils to rough-&-ready Joe Kennedy. In Paris William Bullitt, onetime Philadelphia socialite, dilettante left-winger, champagne-gossip of Europe, consistent Hitler alarmist, has the greater fund of pre-War post-War knowledge, has long been the "closest" to Roosevelt. In Poland, ducking German bombs* was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, another rich young (42) Philadelphian, who had turned serious diplomat...
...deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate in air raids, he says, is one per bomb; the rate of death is one to three casualties; hence three bombs are needed to kill one civilian. Thus, Ordeal's typical air raid wounds only about 67,000, kills little more than...
...Alarmist...