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Airplanes turned the trick in East Africa last week. Resistance of the Italian Empire, which had appeared to be stiffening, suddenly collapsed. Everywhere the extra factor which made the difference was a clap of bombing and a clatter of strafing by planes of the British Empire, for the British had learned the lesson taught by the Germans in Poland, Norway and the Low Countries: that an air force can be used in lieu of artillery to strike where artillery cannot reach because of distance or rough terrain...
...Your suggestion that "Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line" [TIME, Dec. 23] is such a gross distortion that I could not discuss it in terms worthy of the mayor of a great city...
...comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots). If Mayor Raynault is a symptom of a resurgence of Duplessis sentiment, Canada may have to clap many more French Canadians into detention camps to keep French Canada in line...
Wauchula was the place where we played musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...
Last week a storm broke upon Shanghai newsmen in a downpour of unexpected violence. First warning came like a clap of thunder in the form of an executive decree, issued by Wang Ching-wei's Japanese-puppet Government at Nanking, ordering the arrest and deportation from China of six U. S. newsmen, one Briton for "endeavoring to undermine the Chinese [i.e., Wang] Government ... by distributing rumors and improper statements endangering the Republic...