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Before dawn one morning last week at Nablus a detachment of native policemen and soldiers, led by British Assistant District Commissioner W. Foote, moved off into the hills of northern Palestine. Their destination was the tiny Arab village of Mazar. With the squad moved armored cars. As they crept up on the village in the grey morning light, two British planes droned overhead. The Arabs scrambled from their houses to find their village surrounded...
Success did not come till four years later, when his Reisebilder (Pictures of Travel) appeared, a bookful of prose sketches and verses on the German scene. Fame did nothing to soften his contrariety. An increasing bitterness crept into his writings; his attacks on German bigwigs, literary and political, grew sharper and more open. A subsequent volume brought denunciations, threats of libel suits. The next was proscribed throughout Germany. Heine, one jump ahead of the police, fled to Paris...
...days clicked off, winter crept nearer, and the big offensive did not start, but Rightist chances in Spain and in the world outside (see p. 20) seemed bright enough for Burgos papers to carry this typical Spanish boast over the signature of Francisco Franco: "The war is won! It will finish with a general collapse of our opposition which each day becomes more certain. One day Spain will wake up and have the surprise of learning the war is over!" Boasted back the city of Madrid on banners unfurled Nov. 7 "On Nov. 7th we crushed Franco.! . . . Long live Madrid...
Gradually his legs grew numb; they were the first to fall asleep. The numbness crept up his body, as ideas--all sick and diseased--ran little circles in his mind. He turned over on his left side; he doubled his legs; he moved his hands under the pillow. He rested. He turned back again on his right side; he crossed his legs; he extended them. His subconscious grasped him, and without recognition he was asleep...
...bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train was forced to spend a day at Chita because the single track east of there had been torn up in a clash between Bolshevik and Semenov troops. When track repairs had been completed, our train crept slowly on into White Russian territory...