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Riots and killings, the whip and executions mean disorder; the spread of boycotts, strikes, sullenness and turmoil mean a mass movement. The India Office, not for the first time, was talking colonial whitewash. Although doubts crept in and a few liberal voices spoke up, the British press, for the most part, obscured the issue. So did the U.S. press, with few exceptions (see cuts). What was happening in India was being felt by the world. A cry for freedom, confused, tragic, but potentially as powerful as any since Voltaire's Ecrasez I'In fame (Crush the Infamous!) could...
Into the U.S. radio announcer's voice, whose main job has always been to promote sales in delicious tones, a new note has crept-a note of No. Announcers who still sounded as though they were bottled in heavy cream were last week giving such commercials...
Slowly the Germans crept toward Voronezh. They crossed and cut Russia's important railway link between Moscow and Rostov. They commanded the middle reaches of the Don, although they had yet to master its lower channel, where most of the river's traffic moves, where Russia breeds her fighting Cossacks. Some 100 miles below Voronezh, the Nazis seized Rossosh. Then they drove on south and eastward...
Since the glider program has been under way, a touch of Tom Swift and His Wonderful Airship has crept into the shoptalk of Army airmen. As of Jan. 1, Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...beaches of the Atlantic were stained with the brown blood of ships that could not be spared. Now oily hemorrhages spread on the flats of two great rivers. One of them was the St. Lawrence. Between its wildly beautiful banks, in the midriff of stubbornly isolationist Quebec, the German crept and waited. He nailed two ships in inland waters, and Quebec began searching its soul as it had never searched before...