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Despite the formal division, the volume is an organic whole, fitted together with the care of a Byzantine mosaic-maker. Here is a historian who deals intimately and knowingly of economics, ethics, and politics, and who is able to shatter the artificial barriers between them. Here is a Briton with the moral and intellectual courage to admit that his nation has lost her position of world leadership. Here, above all else, is an academic man without an academic mind...
From the barbed-wire fastness of a German prison camp a Briton wrote thus last week, describing an extraordinary scene which had broken prison monotony. The Germans, with great ceremony, paid tribute to one of their own prisoners, Lieut. Commander Stephen Haider Beattie. Through the Red Cross notification had come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the 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...
...month-old second son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent was christened: Michael George Charles Franklin. Seventh in the line of succession to Britain's throne, he was the first royal Briton to bear a U.S. citizen's name-Franklin D. Roosevelt was his godfather and name giver. The Duke of Kent stood as President Roosevelt's proxy. After the ceremonies the King, Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess all posed with the new Prince for a new page in the family album...
...running with the fox. But his services might have been of immediate value. He could have told what the Repulse and the Prince of Wales were likely to expect when they got into those [Malayan] waters-a superior fleet and an enormous air force." There was only one living Briton, he reminded the Houses, who could wear an Albert Medal, First Class, awarded him in World War I. That Briton was ex-Flight Commander Rutland...
...Gough's boats had been operating. At approximately the same time, sabotage of the intelligence officer's plane was discovered. His room was ransacked and a bottle of whiskey in it was poisoned. The first sip of a drink poured out for his British colleague left the Briton paralyzed from the hips down for 24 hours...