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Death came last week to the Colonial Secretary and Conservative Leader in the House of Lords, Baron Lloyd. Following a chill, he lay ill three weeks under the care of the King's physician, Lord Horder. Not until he died was it revealed that the 61-year-old Baron had flown repeatedly over Germany as a bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness...
...London it smacked at first of important Nazi machinations in the Middle East. Wastrel Abdul Hamid did visit Germany last year. Asserted Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: "The conspiracy to murder King Ibn Saud was hatched not in the sultry courtyards of Mecca but in the chill, tile-floored galleries of the Wilhelmstrasse. . . . Germany's object was to start a guerrilla war behind Britain's back in Palestine and Egypt." Next day the Daily Express was curtly corrected by a Saudi Arabian official statement in London: "The man [Sherif Abdul Hamid] had no political party behind...
Time was running fast last week. The quick winter days flashed by, grey, chill and wet; the disappointment, gloom and confusion of leaderless, floundering Washington had spread over the U. S. The country stirred uneasily. Eminent men made angry speeches. Little men lined up outside reopening factories. The headlines' phantasmagoria whirled on: strikes, battles, production bottlenecks, taxes, airplanes, fleet bases. These were the table talk of the last days of 1940-and desk talk, factory and farm talk...
...talked nearly an hour with Secretary of State Hull by telephone during the morning. That night he headed north, reached Washington the next chill, drizzly afternoon, at the White House again talked with Mr. Hull. In the rain outside, men & women sloshed up & down Pennsylvania Avenue, now & then looking curiously at the White House. There rested their hopes, their problems, perhaps the shape of their fate. Unimportant, at the moment, were the Logan-Walter Bill that Mr. Roosevelt would veto, the St. Lawrence Seaway that he would promote, the controversies, vexations and misunderstandings of ordinary times. Mr. Roosevelt had asked...
...into the desert, taught raw recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual of arms, the ways of horses, impressed their officers with their "remarkable intensity and enthusiasm." Machine-gunners and artillerymen practiced firing at wheeled targets, cavorting down a winding, miniature railway...