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Even his mildest critics say that Beaverbrook is "slightly cracked." But a Canadian columnist summed up the general opinion of him thus: "Positive, bee; comparative, beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." To keep Britain's aircraft factories running during a Blitzkrieg is a job comparable to running General Motors' 38 U. S. plants in an earthquake...
Appeasement? The Star-Times could not take this Blitzkrieg lying down. Next day, on page 1, the Star-Times struck back at Editor Coghlan. Calling the Post-Dispatch's piece a "fanatical diatribe, bred of mingled hate and fear," an effort "to win the Pulitzer Prize for Appease ment," the Star-Times bought the same space which the Post-Dispatch had taken in the New York Times and Washington Post to meet the attack...
...Blitzkrieg had, however, not yet closed the port of London. U. S. correspondents who last week visited that 3,668-acre area at the mouth of the Thames, which in peacetime used to handle more than 1,000,000 tons of cargo per week, found scores of ships from all parts of the British Empire, South America, the Far East, unloading food and war goods for Britain, loading cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high...
...While piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...
Before Hitler's aerial Blitzkrieg became a reality, the English theatre was in the dumps. Last week, as Nazi bombers swarmed over London, theatrical tills rang loudly again. Going strong were revivals like the Devil's Disciple with Robert Donat, Dear Octopus with aging Marie Tempest. Viewed tepidly by critics, cheered loudly by audiences was Clare Boothe's anti-Nazi comedy Margin for Error, which opened a fortnight ago. Most popular of the musicals was Shepherd's Pie, which after ten months was still turning customers away. Included in the show is a pageant involving Elizabeth...