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"We Shall Fight On." In London, Prime Minister Churchill paid a gallant tribute to "the gallant French people who have fallen into this terrible misfortune," disclosed that Britain had vainly proposed to France union into a single nation. As for England, said he: "We shall defend our island, and with...
The latter readers still remember as the day England and France declared war on Germany. The first date Allen recalls with sketchy vividness. The day after Labor Day, 1929, when the Dow-Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On...
At 52, Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha...
U. S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph Clark Grew is such a skillful diplomat that every time he criticizes the Japanese, they like him better. He has virtually all the qualities which a foreign emissary to Tokyo needs: seven years' residence in the country, tall body, grey hair, dark mustache...
Editors who give their magazines a fillip of "poetry" do so with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published...