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...mission had grown out of Eden's pointed hint in a recent House of Commons speech: "We could . . . use our close friendship with these countries [of western Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...distinct from that of the New Deal. He stands for an end to Government hostility toward business. He stands for giving private enterprise the chance to create all possible jobs, and for moving in with Government-made work (the PWA kind rather than WPA leaf-raking)-but only to buttress the job-creating activity of the citizens themselves. Most importantly, he rejects the New Deal premise that the days of economic progress for America are finished...
...those four weeks the Japs had snatched back miles of the railroad from Chinese guerrillas and regular troops, had swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
...more adventurous trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...
...airports. A mountain range could be filled with troops overnight. (A glider can land in a small clearing, stop almost instantly.) Since the gliders can be picked up again, commanders could accelerate emergency shipments to areas far distant from supply dumps. Mayhap tank-toting gliders will whoosh down to buttress surprise offensives...