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Four torpedo planes came first. Heavy fire and Italian caution kept the planes well away, too high and too far for good aiming. Then came bombers, some high and some diving on the five light cruisers, the destroyers and the supply ships in the British convoy. Unscathed, the convoy pushed on toward Malta...
...inventories are roof-top high, they expect to sell out long before any post-war slump catches them. But not all retailers are so cocky: giant Montgomery Ward has cautiously set up a $2,000,000 reserve for "price declines." And from visiting British Storeman Victor Coen came another caution note: "Those British retailers who made heavy advance purchases . . . were sadly disappointed...
Although this type of coverage receives all of the news that is given to the German people, much of the information is rumor. This, he warned, must be treated with caution, for the Germans frequently plant it to sound out public opinion in the Allied countries...
Indian Cases. Replying to this case for caution, India makes several cases. But they all agree that high-minded British liberalism is still much less evident than imperial British greed. Anti-British India cannot forget the long exploitation of India through British business and finance. It accuses British lust for profit and fear of Indian industrial competition of keeping India's population 75% supported by agriculture, only 2% by modern industry...
Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...