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...laughing matter are the bombproof and gasproof cellars with which Buckingham Palace has finally been equipped this year while the Royal Family were in Scotland. During the War, by order of Kaiser Wilhelm, his cousins in Buckingham Palace were never bombed, although nearby Trafalgar Square was bombed repeatedly. Still in place, but considered useless against today's heavy bombs, is "the Steel Helmet," a steel net supporting layers of sand bags strung under the roof of Buckingham Palace...
...guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate a visit by Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, both loud in proclaiming on every occasion that their Fascist-Nazi...
Shelled was Salamanca, but that was in 1812, by Wellington. Today most obvious local indications that a war is going on are the signs above bombproof Reiugios on many street corners, and the fact that all street lights are extinguished at 12. Since not even a war can break the Spanish habit of dining at 10:30 p.m., the old-time profession of linkboys has been revived by newsboys with flashlights who light the Novelti's patrons home...
MUCH OBLIGED FOR KIND REVIEW NORTHWEST PASSAGE [TIME, July 5] BUT WILL ALSO NEED WHOLESALE RATES ON BOMBPROOF SHELTERS UNLESS I CAN PERSUADE YOU TO SPEAK A FEW MORE WORDS IN MY BEHALF TO OUTRAGED HISTORIANS. YOU QUOTED ME AS SAYING NO COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF ANYTHING COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA...
...about as safe as human ingenuity can make it. The gold storage vault is a massive box 40 ft. by 60 ft., with top and sides of 25-in. steel and concrete. It rests on bedrock and is enclosed by a granite and concrete building topped with a bombproof roof. An invading army that lands on the Atlantic coast will have 600 rough miles to travel before it reaches Fort Knox. Common thieves will have to outwit and outfight a detachment of 24 Mint guards in "pill boxes" at the building's four corners and the entire Seventh Cavalry...